loft treasures

Husband's grandparents are called Dandy and Grandmommie. They live in a cozy little home in a place called Point Clear, Alabama. It's one of those rare places that is full of artists who actually help time stand still rather than spur it forward.

D & G, as I like to call them, cook thick, seasoned, wonderful Southern food and spend their days doing nice things for other people and looking for beauty to capture in paintings. They have a little studio in their upstairs loft where they work on their paintings, together.

Sometimes, we are given treasures created in that cozy loft studio.

Our most recent Loft Treasure is a painting of a photograph taken of us at the beach when we lived in Florida. That day, the water was resting over the shore in a thin layer, and the light and colors of the water and waves and figures along the beach cast a shimmery prism of colorful shapes across the sand.

And Grandmommie captured it for us in a painting to hang on our wall,

to help us remember our days at the beach.