Hackleboro Orchard Study, Canterbury

Hackleboro Orchard Study, Canterbury

6 in. x 8 in., acrylic canvas    

$130 framed

Every year our family goes to this wonderful little orchard in the woods of Canterbury, New Hampshire out on Hackleboro Road.  The apples are always abundant and the cider is delicious because they don't pasteurize it, so it keeps its bright, fruity flavor, and will get fizzy if left on its own for a while (nice!).  The wide, grassy rows and gravelly lane between the Cortlands invited this loose, washy, scrubby little study of a fall day at this earthy, blissfully uncommercialized New England farm.

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Plum Island Sunrise

  Plum Island Sunrise

8 in. x 8 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas    

$150 unframed (no frame needed) 

Vacation for a few days in Newburyport, Massachusetts wasn't going to be complete without spending some serious summer hours on Plum Island.  This idyllic place is a barrier island facing the Atlantic, and separated from the towns of Newburyport, Newbury and Ipswich by acres of salt marsh and Plum Island Sound.  We arrived just after sunrise and drove the seven miles down through the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on a mostly gravel road while the morning light was still dim.  We counted seventeen (!) eastern cottontails darting in and out of the beach plums, saltwater roses and bayberry along the road and even saw two coyotes skulking along the road in front of our car, presumably looking for a bunny breakfast. This view is from Sandy Point Beach down at the rounded extreme southern tip of Plum Island, looking northeast around the scrub-covered, knobby cliff where the beach is littered with rocks and weathered fallen logs.  The sun here is scarcely a half hour into the August sky.

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