This and That

Regular readers know that we love our Lazy Daze motor home. Being a somewhat small company, you don't see all that many out there.  Usually, when you see any artwork involving RVs, it's rarely a Lazy Daze. That said, a friend of ours was vacationing up in Seattle and saw a weekly paper with this on the cover.

 

Wow, Lazy Daze in artwork, what a find.

Intrigued, I looked it up and found it was painted 

by an artist named Casey Weldon.

Hoping there was some kind of back story, 

I emailed him and he replied

"My grandparents owned one when I was a kid 

and they often took my brother, cousin and I out camping. 

The painting is a sort of reminiscence of two sisters 

I have a vague recollection of meeting 

at one of the camp sites. 

I was in love with them, 

as much as any boy could be in love for a week, I guess. 

They were older, 

and I don't if it was general disinterest in us, 

the campsite, 

or another issue, 

but something about them seemed sad. "

Is that a cool story or what?

And speaking of Lazy Daze artwork,

back when we first got the rig, 

we camped for a while with Lazy Daze friends 

John and Ilene Van Gossen.

Ilene Is a talented artist 

and gifted us these small paintings, 

just perfect for the kitchen in the rig.

I look at them every day 

and they continue to inspire me, 

I wish I could paint like this!

Feeling somewhat inspired, 

I worked on a couple of shots 

I've taken of small pewter statues 

that we will be selling.

I couldn't figure out 

where the striped light came from, 

but I liked the effect, 

so I just went with it.

And once again, 

that's it for today.