Day TWO - Tuesday - Watercolor Class

Well, I am back on my (somewhat) standard Beaver Island schedule.  I was in bed last night EXHAUSTED at 9:30.  I have had too much sun in the last two days and it has wiped me, my face and my lips right out.  The next thing will be a great big cold sore - I can feel it coming.  It is 6:00 a.m. I have been up since 5 and down in the computer lab since 5:30.  I am watching the sun come up out the big lakeside windows and the sky is pink and orange behind the clouds.  It is supposed to rain and thunderstorm all day today so it is going to be an all studio all the time kind of day.  I have TONS of images from which to paint so that is fine by me!
Yesterday, after the rain in the morning, was gorgeous!  Just gorgeous!  We started class while it rained

then in the afternoon we loaded up the vans and headed into town.  Since it was SUCH a beautiful day I decided to take photos so I would have things to paint.  I walked from the north lighthouse and the old Coast Guard Boathouse all the way around Paradise Bay to the ferry dock at the other end of St. James (about 1 1/4 miles)

By the time I got all the way around the bay it was HOT, I was even more sunburned and I was pooped.  But I had some GREAT images.  But, sadly, I mysteriously hit something on the camera that changed the settings (I have no idea WHAT) and some of them came out sort of pastel tinted black and white.  Fine for ME, but some of them were promised to the people in the pictures (of their boats and houses) and they look pretty crappy.  I will just have to send them along with an apology for my stupidity . . . .