The end of my 3 week trip North in June …

After 4 days in NY City I grabbed the Amtrak back to Dutchess County to spend my last 2 days with my daughter and her husband. I knew we wouldn’t have too much time together since it was the end of the week and their business, Bowen Barn, is open on weekends only and I was leaving early Sunday to come home. But I love visiting their shop and was anxious to see how Jody had highlighted the two little chairs that I had painted for them. As usual she did a great job.
                                    
 

Jody is constantly changing and updating the rooms … which is quite a task when you consider that it’s a converted cow barn on three levels ! Here is another room that she “staged”…

 

Both of them are very artistic and their shop is a reflection of their talents. She has a great sense of design and Brian does amazing things with metal, as demonstrated by this 6 foot armillary.

 

   And this large bell that he fashioned from a discarded oxygen tank.

 

It has the loveliest tone, deep and reverberating and if you close your eyes you would swear you were in Italy. 

So that wraps up my 3 week trip. It went by too quickly but I came home with some lovely memories that will last a lifetime !