January brings thoughts of cold, ice, snow, icky weather. Stuck inside. Janice decided it was the perfect time to go to the Caribbean, so that's what we did for the last week of January. We spent a week on St. Maarten in the Dutch East Indies. It was a different sort of vacation for us, because there were no antiques to be found anywhere! It was a wonderful time for us to be gone, feeling warm breezes, and distance ourselves from the very interesting American media which was thrashing from day to day. The beaches on St. Maarten aren't the huge beaches of the Bahamas or the Gulf of Mexico, but it was wonderful nevertheless! Near the end we took a long walk around the bay towards the airport and I was able to get images of the beach without boats moored in the bay. Boats are great, but the bay was pretty much a parking lot--a very pleasant parking lot! This painting was created from one of those images. Landscape 427: Beach on St. Maarten, 16x24", 2025. Acrylic on canvas. $840.
