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In The Forest

This is a copy I painted of a work by a Swedish artist, Anders Zorn. It is titled: In the Forest

Anders Zorn lived in the delightful little village of Mora, Sweden. We have a wonderful friend who keeps an apt.there. He graciously let us use his apt. Easter 08 for a little holiday. We really enjoyed our visit to Mora. The people were charming and friendly,& food was great. We loved visiting the Zorn museum, (http://www.zorn.se/engmain.html.) It is a short drive to another little town, Nusnas where they make the famous Dahl horses.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalecarlian_horse.) There are several wookshops in town where thousands of wooden horses wait to be handpainted. The horses are handcarved by local people and sold to one of several workshops in the village. The village itself is on a flat plane next to lake Mora. It is hauntingly beautiful, a collection of wooden homes spaced a good distance apart like farm buildings. At Easter it was still cold, the earth was still frozen, with a light blanket of snow.

Daglivarer, Briskeby, Oslo, Norway

A Daglivarer is a daily store, sort of like our 7-11. This one sits hard by the road on a Trikk line( street car),in the neighborhood of Briskeby, Oslo Norway. These little shops are warm welcoming stops on cold Oslo days.

Cupcakes under glass

Cute little cupcakes under glass, sweets and artwork, best of both worlds

Marine Corps Mud Challenge

The old goat still has what it takes. He finished the 4.5 mile run through the woods, crawled through the nets, scaled walls, climbed up mud hills and crossed a few streams in less than an hour.

Marine Corps Mud Challenge

Over the log, under the log, over the log, under the log.

Marine Corps Mud Challenge

Shower facilities to be provided. They forgot to mention that the shower was a firehose hoisted 60 feet in the air on a hook and ladder truck.