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Last week I headed to North Carolina to visit my Mom for Mother's Day. While I am here I try to walk the beach on Topsail Island every day to collect seashells and hopefully walk off all the cookies I seem to be consuming. This charming cottage is perched on the dune and I think this is a good photo reference for a future painting. I would like to give a shout out and thank you to
Pam Hobbs for selling my "A and B Marina" (see April 11 post) painting for me and for working some of my shifts in the gallery while I am gone.