The Puckett Cabin

GG's 2007 Road Trip

Orelena Puckett and her husband farmed near Groundhog Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains just below here when they were first married in 1863. She was 16. In her fifties she became a midwife and continued until she helped deliver her last baby not long before she died at the age of 102!! The Parkway wasn't here, of course, and when she was called on she either walked or rode her horse to help. They say in all those years she never lost a baby or a mother through any fault of hers. However, and this is sad, after assisting in the births of over 1,000 babies none of her 24 children lived past infancy. (1837-1939)

6"x6" oil on gesso board unframed, $100.00 (SOLD)

GG & I will be on a paint out with Oil Painters of America at Mt. Carmel in Utah the 24th of September through October 3, 2007.

Ocracoke Beach

GG's 2007 Road Trip

Just this week Ocracoke Beach was named Americas Best Beach! I am here and I can testify first hand that it is beautiful, the sand is like silk, it isn't crowded and it is a great place to play in the surf. Made a wonderful day and I hate to move on. If I came back next year would it be changed? Sometimes you wish these very special places would stay just a little out of the limelight.

5"x7" oil on gesso board unframed, $100.00 postage prepaid. (SOLD)

Cupcake Heaven

GG's 2007 Road Trip

If I lived in the East Dean and Deluca's just might give Seattle Best and Tully's a battle for my coffee addiction. This particular D & D's in Charlotte has everything...deli, bakery and different foods you just don't find in the average store. We filled our baskets and settled down at a table with our coffee and some Moravian cookies. Next to us this little boy had the same idea only with chocolate milk and a cupcake. If you could have seen his eyes when they brought this giant cupcake and sat it in front of him. Pure Heaven!
6"x6" oil on gesso board unframed, $100.00 postage prepaid.

The Battle of Little Round Top

GG's 2007 Road Trip

This is a beautiful photo, isnt it. And the countryside around Gettysburg is beautiful with the green and gold fields, the old rail fences, the rock walls. It is hard to visualize the battle that raged here in July, 1863 between the Army of the Potomac and the Confederate forces...and the terrible loss of lives in that four day battle. In an account written by a Captain in General Picketts Division, "The destruction of life in the ranks of that advancing host was fearful beyond precendent, officers going down by dozens and the men by scores and fifties." Across this field the Confederate soldiers must charge through the open to attack the Union soldiers dug in at Little Round Top just beyond the grove of trees.

5"x7" oil on canvas board unframed, $100.00 postage prepaid.
SOLD

The Garden of the East

GG's 2007 Road Trip

My day was spent in the old resurrected Colonial town of Williamsburg and I mean my whole day. It actually covers 300 acres, I understand, and I think I walked at least half!

The Governors Palace on the Palace Green is so beautiful and I really wish I could send a picture but as so often happens, those particular shots did not turn out. I was relieved to see that those taken in the Palace Gardens did. It was such a hot day and when I walked to the back of the Palace into the gardens I sat on a bench and soaked up the coolness as well as the beauty. It's laid out in big beds of flowers separated with box hedges and walkways, the beds of red, yellow and blue big rectangles of color. And then these intricate white filigree gates. Lovely!

5:x7" oil on canvas board unframed, $100.00 postage prepaid.