My yard is taking over my life , I am sure I am not the only one , it's this time of year ! The mulch the planting, trimming ,cutting ,flowers boxes. Living on Main Street I have a duty to keep the place on top shape , every bone in my body is hurting right now! Oh well that's life.
This pastel was done at the same location of the previous day , I just turned my easel the other way. 
Pastel landscape #1
This week end is to honor our fallen Veterans, 
Enjoying my stay in Maine, just relaxing and doing my daily painting.
When you drive on the coast of Maine ,you will find many of these lonely houses , I am always attracted to them and wondered the past history, who lives in them .This is one of them, had me stopped dead on my tracks to capture the light.
Cleaning my garden that is full of violets , they are very pretty but they are a weed in the garden.
Well, the garden has taking my time after a week of rain, it needed attention. I have brought back this rooster from my mother's house in France and always wanted to do a still life with it , so here it is.
Another example of a House Portrait , of a beautiful new Coastal Home in Maine .
While visiting my brother last week , I came upon this scene just around the corner from his house , this retired man looked so cute and relaxed fishing , father's day is coming soon and a lot of fathers probably would like to go fishing .
With Spring here and summer around the corner , your garden looks beautiful and you want to keep the memory of your house and it's beauty or surprised your wife or husband . I specialised on house Portraits , don't be afraid to call me for more details or email me nlcasey@charter.net
In my walk this morning ,I picked these blossoms ,all the trees are in bloom in this area , we are a bit late from the rest of the country , but this is New England !
Had a wonderful Mother's day, and took the day off. but here is a large pastel painting ,from the beautiful orchard in Hollis, NH
It is taking me time to get back to my routine after my trip. Today I did paint my Daily Painting of this castle, located very near to where I grew up , actually castles are everywhere, when you live in the Loire Valley! I really didn't like them because we would visit them so often with school trips , family outings etc.. it got to be boring and they would smell , of course I didn't realised I was so lucky, as a child you never appreciate the things that are around you. This particular castle is next to the bridge that crosses the Loire river in the town of Sully . One of my relatives used to work there as a care taker and lived in the front tower .
Our last night in Paris was at this quint Hotel in the "Quartier Latin" A place I try to visit every year, close to a lot of fun things to do and see , perfect area for an Artist to stay!
I am not painting as much as I want because of too many family gattering, and big dinners . I did take a lot of pictures , I really want to paint so bad , but my family have so many plans for me. in a few days I will be more free and hope to escape.
