Fun and Games

I've been on the go go go for a few weeks now, not even time to blog. A bit of catch up...I really out the yarn, fiber, glass and patterns the last couple weeks so I could go play with my girls. This past week a heap of my friends went to Chestertown to eith paint or bike.

 

 'Paint the Town', a plein air event, grabbed the attention of a 4 of my friends, who chose to work in their medium of choice while pleasantly sitting out doors. Tina is making herself comfortable amongst the flowers in a private garden, working in colored pencil on black paper.

Susan also chose the same garden to work with oil paint.

 
There were 32 plein air painters around town. Tami and I rode around town trying to find them painting, like a treasure hunt. Jackpot in the garden.



One painter was creating this lovely scene on canvas.

Tami and I chose not to paint, but to bike. We met up with 6 of my Cumberland girlfriends, who coincidentally happened to be in the area biking for 4 days.

My friend Tami from Alaska arrived April 10 and is staying with us until June. She is a perfect houseguest, chopping wood (she even knows how to use and FIX our big wood splitter), she's Houston's main help in the bathroom project, laying flooring, advising on heating (she's a mechanical engineer) and just a great person. We're riding together from Cumberland to Oberlin, Ohio to attend her daughter's graduation (and my son's reunion). Houston and Garrett will join us somewhere along the way.

Since March we've been hosting folks in both houses. First were our paddler friends, Canadian Olympians training at the whitewater course nearby. Then Tami arrived with two other friends from Alaska to participate in a frisbee event. Now our friend from England, Clemens, is here for a conference. We kidnapped him and whisked him away to Cumberland for the weekend. BWI was just on the way from Chestertown!

We got a bike ride in on the Allegany Trail, a rail to trails path, but the first 15 miles parallels a real track that features a scenic steam train.

We got a bike ride in on the Allegany Trail, a rail to trails path, but the first 15 miles parallels a real track that features a scenic steam train. This was a special run for this train as it was filled with train-o-philes photographing the train and its surroundings. It had stopped along the tracks, letting all the photographers out so we got a good look at the behemoth.

This is Clemens riding up to the train so you can see how very large the train is. So now it's back to the hot stove to dye, dye, dye and get ready for Maryland Sheep & Wool Fest. Cya!