It was a glorious day for all the artists who gathered to paint the sunflowers in the four acre field (L to R) Clare Klaum, MaryBeth Brath, host Eric Olson, Jane Ramsey, Claire Beadon Carnell, Linda Young
Mary Beth
Work in progress, Linda Young
Claire amid the Dream Field
Clare
The apprentice plein air painter
The field of dreams, oh yes...it really Was!
artists entering "Bottini Woods"
Seven Lively artist Robert L. Hughes
Joan, a friend of the Olson's
Windmill Creek Studios You couldn't ask for a more beautiful day than today; blue skies, yellow fields of sunflowers and the field alive with the sound of the buzzing bees. All of us were quietly painting away when suddenly, each of us "felt a little strange".
After family members called Claire Carnell and Mary Beth, we were told that feeling was the 5.9 earthquake we all had just experienced. I recall Mary Beth saying she thought someone was behind her shaking her chair; I had a feeling of wobbly legs similar to getting off a boat onto land.
Thank you to our hosts Nancy and Eric Olson for their wonderful hospitality. We all want to come back again to your lovely farm and painterly Heaven. The sunflowers really were amid a field of dreams.
Linda Young, photographer
Linda Young Watercolors
P O Box 941
Carlisle, Pa. 17013
