Happy to be back from vacation

Here are some photos of my recent trip with my friend Joe.  If you have ever come by the studio during any of the Open Studio events you have met Joe.  As my husband Jim is prefers to stay home Joe and I have taken a few trips together and I wanted to post a few photos here. (thank you Joe for being such a good travel bud).  We started off in southern Portugal for 5 days, then on to Iceland for 5 days, then back to Portugal (Lisbon) for the final few days. - Never plan an air travel trip in the middle of and air travel trip......too much time spent in airports and waiting to get onto some  kind of line for something.  Portugal was surprisingly crumbly (many of the buildings seemed in quite a state of disrepair)....Iceland lots and lots of vast fields of lava with beautiful scenery here and there around the edge..... Lots of fabulous fish was eaten, and of course as many churches as we could find (free art!)...The weird painting was in one of our bed and breakfasts and I just had to share it.  Oh and the last painting I included because it was an awesome cliff but believe it or not the really cool thing was a guy at the top fishing (you can just make him out)-that was the longest fishing line ever.

I could go on and on but should probably get back to the easel. Hope this finds everyone well and enjoying the summer. Best, Chris