Winter Cabin – oil on board – 12″ x 9″ 
Petawawa was home to our family three separate times in Daves military career, so when he asked if I wanted to go (he had to go up for a few days for work) I thought I’d tag along. It was fun to see how much the village has grown, but the nature of the place hasn’t changed, with ‘deep woods’ surrounding it. They definately have more snow. No lake effects winter there.
On the drive home yesterday i was enjoying listening to an audio book, ‘The Last Wife of Henry the VIII’ , a book i’ve wanted to read for a while but never seemed to find the time for. Yay for the library! It’s got a great collection of audio books. If you haven’t tried audio books while driving, i highly recommend this form of entertainment. I’m a lover of historically based fiction, so this one was right up my alley. At the same time that I was immersed in the 1500′s, i was paying particular attention to what parts of the landscape passing along the way drew my eye…shapes of rocky outcrops, drifting snow, shadows shapes and colours…I was amused to discover that it was also nearly always some little dwelling or another.
How fabulous Sally. I can just see it. And it makes sense that what
catches our attention is a house and thoughts of the life inside. I love
audio books too. When we go to Nova Scotia we take 60 out of the
library. We don’t listen to all of them in three weeks, but quite a few.
I’ll have to make a note of this one.
XO Barbara
hi Barbara, thanks for your constant encouragement and interest.