Southport Yacht Basin

View Of The Bridge, 6 x 6" oil on panel, ©2012, Fay Terry

Painting water usually gives me a feeling of coolness but it didn't work today. This was painted before the A/C was fixed and it was ninety degrees outside. My next session in the studio will be very comfortable.

The trim on this  boat in Southport reminded me of lemon and lime sherbet for some reason. The flag added more color and the whole thing framed the bridge.  We have two bridges to the island now and this one is the older of the two.  The new bridge has not been open long and saves us about twenty minutes getting to the house from Pinehurst.

Birds Of A Feather

Ibis Study, 5 x 7 " oil on gessobord panel, © 2012 Fay Terry

These are just a few of the birds I watched beside the Oak Island Bridge recently. There were probably two hundred of them milling about in the muck and flying around close to the water at low tide. It looked like a very social gathering and I took quite a few photos.

This is also a spot where we like to go crabbing and hope to be doing that soon.