2026 Happy 4th

SOLD!   $155 (unframed) 4x6" mini original watercolor
Available to the 1st person to email
(framing 8x10". $35 - shipping available at cost)
If unsold by 7/4 the price goes to $250.

A bit of celebration from my town of Lititz.

2026 Water #1

$145 (unframed) 4x6" mini original watercolor
Available to the 1st person to email
(framing 8x10". $35 - shipping available at cost)
If unsold by 7/3 the price goes to $225.

I needed a little change... so I went back to my Scotland photos for a little water scene from Anstruther-Cellard. Anstruther Lighthouse is located on the west pier of Anstruther Harbour.  Also named Chalmers Lighthouse, it was built in 1880 as a memorial to Dr Thomas Chalmers, a mathematician, political economist and leader of the Free Church of Scotland.

Daily Bread

This morning at 7am I helped Linda hose off the front porch so its dirt free for the 4th.  Then at 9am I had PT.   I started a painting but will not get it finished in time to post.  So here is another new larger painting you have not seen.

"Daily Bread"         framed 18x14                 $900.
This wonderful painting is from the kitchen at Stratford Hall, VA.
Fresh bread and a bowl of veggies on the table.

Also if you are into antiques, we are downsizing our collection and there are a few things on Marketplace.  Just search my name!

4 Week Up Date...

 Tuesday is 4 weeks since my accident.  I am doing very well.  I have my 4th session of PT. Working on my lower back and walking straight and stamina.  I was able to start driving on the weekend!  Woo hoo, I feel like a free man! We had lots of errands today including a trip to Costco and I managed!  Pushing a cart helps but I did it!  I am hoping to start tomorrow painting Blog paintings.  Abbey gave me this fantastic new paint set for Fathers Day. Kremer Pigments.  They are the fantastic, loving using them.

I did manage to finish another larger painting.

"More Treasures"  framed 14x18    $875.

Day 12 Update...

 After a lot of discussion I decided to cancel the Guild Show at the Foundry in Lititz held this weekend. June 20-21.  I struggled with wanting to go and actually being able to sit there for 2 days.  I simply had to recognize it is too soon.  I look pretty good on the outside, well I am still purple on my shoulder! It is my  lower back and groin muscles that are still screaming!

I started painting.  I can sit at the table for an hour then need to take a little walk.  Then another hour and then hit the lazy boy with my feet up.  You do not recover the same at 73 as 37!!  Thank you for all your words of encouragement and prayers.

Update...

 Update...    Yesterday I rode in the car (Linda drove!)  all the way to UPS 2 whole miles. AND I (slowly) went inside and mailed a box.  For 8 days I have had baths from a bowl, today I took a shower, it might have been the BEST shower I have ever had!  I feel almost human.   Linda changed the bandage on my shoulder.  The road rash is healing.  Woohoo!  These are no small accomplishments!  AND I painted for an hour.  AND I am actually reading a book. "The Art Spy" by Michelle Young.  I am totally enjoying it.

I appreciate everyone who has checked in on me.  

update

 Update:  I am better... Yesterday the Ortho looked at my hand and decided to let it alone, no cast.  Just don't use it!  No lifting anything heavier than a coffee cup.  ( SO, packing the van is out) He changed the bandage on my finger, checked my stitches and checked for feeling.  I get the stitches out on the 17th.  My whole shoulder is a lovely shade of purple that I do not think is in my paint palette!  Back spasms have stopped but I am sore head to toe!  ( SO, sitting in a hard chair all day will not work)  I have not tried steps.  I am walking short distances without the walker.  I AM better and grateful it was not worse.

All that to say I will NOT be at Parkwalk in the Lititz Springs Park this weekend.  My spirit is willing but my body definitely is not.

I am going to try to hold a paint brush with that sore hand later today.

Wee mishap...

I am UNABLE to attend the Lititz Quick Draw on Friday..
Tuesday evening I had a wee bit of a mishap on my bicycle.  I did not see the car and the car did not see me and we collided. Actually, I am not sure what happened!  But I had a fast ride from Ephrata to LGH in an ambulance.  My 1st ambulance ride!  After poking and prodding and many tests the bottom line is a finger with 8 stitches, a broken bone in my wrist area of my painting hand, and a very nasty road rash on my shoulder.  I was having bad bad muscle spasms in my back, I am using a walker... BUT feeling very blessed it wasn't worse.  YES, I had a helmet!

A huge thank you to the Ephrata Ambulance crew that saved my bike clothing rather than cut them off me!  A thank you to the Ephrata Police who kept my bike indoors at the station until Linda could pick it up.  Thank You to the trauma team and the staff in the ER at LGH for 10 hours of care.  Thank you to our friend Betsy who drove Linda in and stayed hours and hours and hours.  Thank you to Linda for the hours of perfect care at home.  I know I scared her to death and I will probably have to beg to ride again!!   I have an Ortho appointment on Monday for the wrist.  I'm feeling a lot better today, off the oxy but still need a walker.  Resting and healing.  We DO NOT need anything!  I just will not be painting for a little bit.

2026 Still Life #22

 mini original watercolor  $225.

This is a really nice still life, there is even wax drips on the candle.  It is painted on some funky hand made paper called Indigo.   The photo exaggerates the paper lines, they are not so prevalent in the actual painting.

We were originally scheduled to wake up in London today for 15 days of touring.  Sadly one of our group found out she has breast cancer and is having a double mastectomy. She could not risk picking up Covid and then postponing the surgery.  Linda is one of her caretakers so we all decided to postpone the whole trip till next year.  That means I am now home to participate in...

Taste of Lititz Quick Draw
this Friday, June 5 • 10 AM - 12PM  I will be painting plein air!
My plan is to be near the Mueller House on Main Street.

01:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Display, Judging and Sales begin.
Artwork is on display/for sale as part of the Taste of Lititz Block Party. Event organizers will monitor and handle sales.

02:00 PM
Prize Winners are Announced

05:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Taste of Lititz Event (click for more info)

All that to say...come to Lititz, watch me paint, buy my painting, and then enjoy Taste of Lititz!!

2026 Window #5

 mini original watercolor  $225.

Great little window...

Over the weekend I finished a larger painting.  All part of beefing up my stock for the Zoar Show in Ohio in July.

"2026 Mixed Textures"     18X14       $900.

Save these dates, share with friends, come see me! June 13  Lititz Parkwalk   from 9am to 4pm  FREE!  rain or shine Held in Lititz Springs Park,  Rt 501 June 20-21  Fine Craft Fair  (PA Guild of Craftsman)  from 10am to 5pm    Held at Foundry 48   100 W. Millport Rd  Lititz Aug. 8  Big Lititz Craft Show   8 to 4   FREE!  I am on the square! Aug. 15-16 Bedminster Traditional Craft Show  Oaks, PA  Hall E Sept. 5-6   Heart of Lancaster  Manheim PA Nov. 20-22  Annual Open House in Lititz PA

At home for the weekend:  Linda put a few items on Facebook Marketplace.  If you want a FREE old juicer...its out on our curb!  She is also struggling with what to do with an antique iron crib, it served her Mom, Linda and our daughter; three generations. Not legal to sell as a crib, thinking about taking it apart and using parts as a trellis in the garden, OR... Free to a good home!

We spent some time in the flower beds and a Summer planting in the big planter box off the kitchen.  We needed tall plants to help distract from our neighbors unfinished house.  Joys of living in town!