I thought I would share a little more about our recent trip to Michigan. We stayed at a nice resort at Boyne Mountain where their was a little airport right at the hotel. It is a ski resort area so I took the lift up one day and took a few pictures. This is the facility with the airport on the right. You can see how close it was.
And this is a better shot of all the airplanes that were there.
One of my favorite parts of the trip was meeting one of the employees at the airport. She works there with her dad. Her job was to chase the geese off the runway. Her name is Sasha and she’s a hard working rescue dog.
It was a great trip and good to see a part of the country where we don’t often travel. I hope to paint from some of the pictures that I took soon.
On another note, tomorrow, Saturday, is the Festival of Leaves in downtown Front Royal. Please come visit us at Delilah’s. I’ll be demonstrating painting at our tent most of the day there and would love to talk to you.
This past weekend we flew to Michigan to Boyne Falls. This is what it looks like from the air.
We met with a group of folks that all have Commander airplanes. It’s a great group of folks. All crazy and fun! We did a fly out one day to Mackinaw Island. This is the view from out of the back window of the other planes lined up on the taxi way all ready to fly out together to Mackinaw.
You can see the prop in this shot of Mackinaw Island. The big white box you see is the Grand Hotel.
The great thing about Mackinaw Island is that there is no motorized vehicles. So when we all arrived and call for the taxi, this is what came to pick us up.
Life is definitely moving at a much slower pace on the island. It took 20 minutes to get from the little airport to the downtown area. This is the view from the “taxi” of the road leading to the Grand Hotel.
And the porch on the front of the Grand Hotel as we passed by in our “taxi”.
And another view of the hotel as we passed her by.
And this is the crew of pilots that made the trip over to Mackinaw. About 20 men and me!!! You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to get them all moving in the same direction. It was just like herding cats!
Since yesterday’s post I added in the grass and some details.
And finally the finished painting! I like the way it turned out. It is an oil painting on canvas panel measuring 12″x16″ and is available by emailing me at 
Back to work on the old truck. Now that I have the truck laid in where I like it I have started on the background. The sky was very blue the day I took the photo but I don’t want it to overwhelm the main focus of the painting, the truck. So I lightened the sky a little.
And added some puffy clouds. 
And the mountains in the distance….
Here is the completed painting that I began as a demonstration for the Strasburg Rotary Club last week. (See 
I am working hard on the Old Truck. I don’t know why I love it so much but I do. It has so much character!!! The longer I look at the reference photo the more I see.
Several months ago I posted the photos I took while driving around the farm in West Virginia where our cabin is located. I ran upon this old truck and just loved how it looked.
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