Change of venue

There have been some changes made here in Maine. Up until today we were staying with Jim and Mary in their guest room, cum Jim's art/music studio, on a fold-down Murphy bed. This afternoon we moved down into a cottage that was previously occupied by Katie, Savanna and Brendon, which is located right on the water. I am sitting on the bed, and out over my feet is a splendid view of the ocean! 

The view at the foot of the bed - pretty nice!

But before all that happened, we went into Rockland and met our friend. Phil McKean, at the Farnsworth Art Museum, one of our  favorites,  second only to the Hallie-Ford Museum in Salem, OR. Originally we were going to meet for lunch at Archer's on the Pier, a very nice restaurant in Rockland located at the end of a peninsula in Rockland Harbor. But we discovered that it is closed on Mondays. So we decided to meet at the Farnsworth, look at some art, and then be joined for lunch by Phil's daughter Susanna, who is visiting from London. That all worked out nicely. Perhaps one downside was that the museum was very crowded with people. I have never been in the Farnsworth when it was so crowded. Fortunately, the museum required all patrons to wear a mask. But still. So I restricted myself to one gallery, which had a very interesting exhibit titled Women of Vision, which featured women artists as well as women photographers, collectors of art and donors of art. After absorbing that exhibit I went into the Library, looked at a very interesting book about the Farnsworth Museum itself and it's original donor, Lucy Farnsworth,  and then joined with Phil, Susanna and Ellen at a picnic table outside the Museum in a sculpture garden  where Phil had brought a take-out lunch from the Atlantic Baking Company, right across the street from the Farnsworth. He had taken orders earlier, and everything was delicious. That provided a perfect place to visit, and the rain held off for quite a while but finally came. But that was after we had all finished eating and had had a long visit. So we said our goodbyes and Phil and Susanna went back into the museum (Susanna hadn't been inside yet) and Ellen and I went to Hannaford Super Market to shop for our stay in the cottage and then came back out to Jim and Mary's, picked up our stuff (which we had packed up before leaving for lunch) and came down to the cottage. Which is where I am now.

The garden where we had our picnic lunch

Phil and Susanna

I took a lot of photos at the Farnsworth, so be on the lookout for a blogpost about that! Here's a little foretaste:

A wood and paper collage, Volcanic Magic XVI (1985) by Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)

The Women of Vision exhibit included Louise Nevelson, whom the Farnsworth has long featured as a local artist: Nevelson (then Leah Berliawsky) moved from Ukraine to Rockland with her family in 1905 and attended high school in Rockland before marrying Bernard Nevelson and moving to New York City. She went on to become one of the most highly regarded artists of the 20th century. The Farnsworth houses "one of the most significant collections of her work in the world."

Later:

We just had supper (Annie's Mac and Cheese with fresh beets from Mary's garden) and then I plugged into the Dummerston Church Zoom meeting that happens every Monday evening. They only got about 2 inches of rain there in Dummerston, and no power outages, so Henri wasn't too bad as it turned out.