"Fall in Exuma"

Its 9:30am and I am sitting on my verandah waiting to catch the water taxi over to Stocking Island. It will be busy at Chat 'N Chill , the restaurant, but I know where to find the quiet spots to paint, and there is the convenience of washrooms to clear up my paints. Not to mention the yummy bb-qued sea food.

Windy cool mornings in the Fall in Exuma, means the best painting time is in the afternoon, but it's taken me a week to relax enough to want to paint and not to be distracted by thoughts of home, work and snow in Canada.

So I think I will have to pull up a beach towel and just start painting and who knows maybe the wait will be worth it. Maybe the wind will help clear the clutter from my mind giving it an opening for that creative energy to move my brushes in a good direction.

During my first week on the island, I have volunteered art lessons to a couple of children on the beach and at my hotel, sharing my painting supplies and my passion for painting. This is great and I packed extra paper for this reason.

I've met up with friends who live on Exuma which is always nice to break up the quiet time of travelling alone, and to see them again is quality time.

Time to get on the sunscreen and pack up my painting supplies for the beach. Maybe
I will try close up scenes of the water the plants, something different. Not that
I am tired of the blue sky, the water and palm trees, I think I am just tired.
I think I just need some vitamin D from the sun to energize me.

Joanne