Lighthouses.....

A lighthouse in Maine near where our youngest son lives. He sent us this picture along with pictures of him working with a lobster fisherman. He was having a great time.
I was at the bookstore for a while today and found a newer book of large pictures of lighthouses. They photographed many of them throughout the world. The architecture of them overseas are very different than ours here in the United States. Their profiles were swayed in at the belly or they built them perfectly square with a platform on top.

Our most favorite place to visit in Minnesota is the Split Rock light house, the yellow one above. It was built in 1909 with all of the materials being shipped in and carried up a lift system up the side of the hill. No roads existed at that time so once it was built, it was supplied solely by ships. We like to paint there and down below it in a park area along the lake. The picture you are seeing is a pastel that Della had done a few years back. The story behind that painting was that we had donated to a church auction for missions, and two people who had liked the painting and had seen the lighthouse, fought over it. The bid went over three hundred dollars before they quit. The painting below is one that I did on the beach below the light house. It is done in pastel and lives in a nice man's house in Madrid, Iowa.



The one above is one that Della also painted. It was on Lake Michigan and is called Point Betsie. I believe that I read that it is a private residence now. I sold one like it but it was a lot smaller than this painting. Mine was a watercolor and the one above is in pastel.
We have had a dream to travel the shores of Superior and Michigan and paint all of the lighthouses but that hasn't happened yet. Thanks for reading.....