Sylvia's Simple Shots

My aunt and I headed to Barrhead to pick up our Feature Artist pieces. 

I sold 2 patches which is not a resounding success.

I will be able to reuse some of them into cards at the gallery but sales have slowed there as well.

I am grateful the weather has hung in and we had a nice sunny day.

I watched this movie on line.  The Etruscan Smile/Rory's Way.

Set in Scotland and the USA.   A father who has pain in his body leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to see his son, new grandson and seek medical help for the pain.

The grandson is wonderful.  His parents are doing what they think is best. The doctor delivers bad news and Rory meets a woman in an art gallery.  

The son left his Scottish life behind and has to deal with past issues with his Dad.  The woman at the gallery is not sure about this older man. The grandson is having adventures with granddad in this big city.

Wonderful movie.

I was looking for a lemon ginger loose tea so I did some research and decided on getting this Blue Ginger Detox tisane from David's Tea.

I was at WEM to pick up photo calendars so I may as well nip in to check this out.

I am wanting not use teabag tea which puts microplastics in what I drink every day.  It wastes packaging as well. 

We shall see.

The wonderful sunflower and gold finch art has been hung.  It used to be over my desk in my office but that wall as too much electrical cables for fire suppression, etc. in it.

I decided to hang it in the hallway facing into the kitchen so I will see it every day.  Goes with the sunflower theme of the kitchen.

It takes a while to decide what a new home looks like and feels like

Several of us attended the reception for the Weight of Silk by Yvonne DuBourdieu at the Red Brick Common Art Gallery. She is from Scotland and now lives in Calgary.  We are so appreciative of being able to see new artist work several times a year.  It is on display till the end of January 2027.

It was sad to learn that the gallery will no longer be hosting art shows. The curator's position is no longer funded so the permanent collection of art will be hung in the gallery.

Summer at Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs is the book I finished this week. After breaking up with her fiancée, Olivia Bellamy reluctantly trades a trendy Manhattan summer for her family’s old resort camp in the Catskills to renovate the bungalow colony for her grandparents. Camp Kioga brings back old memories of her summers as a teenager, when she was still discovering her passions.

The camp is now in disarray, and to her chagrin Olivia is forced to hire contractor Connor Davis—a still-smoldering flame from her own summers at camp. But as the days grow warm, not even the inviting blue waters of Willow Lake can cool the passions flaring or keep shocking secrets at bay.

The nostalgic joy of summers past breathes new promise into a special place and people…a promise meant to last long after the season ends.

A bit of a predictable story line. I guess I should not her books too close together.