Saying hello from Kilcreggan in Scotland

Eleanor -- you are most welcome here! ANd how gorgeous is your art, from the example I see in your profile avatar as posted here -- really marvelous and delightful to my eyes! Your art is just exactly the kind I like and I am an artist too -- though most of my art is small scale because I don't have a lot of space for it. So I do small watercolors and drawings and some acrylic pieces too.

I know exactly what you mean when you say that




It is a difficult obstacle to art, to have these survival issues involved. It makes me sad to think that we were actually better off, as art creating people, either several thousand years ago, or at the present day in more "primitive" communities and tribes, where humans had much more leisure time than we do now in the civilized world. I am planning to take a vacation later this month and it is taking me an enormous amount of work just to get ready to be able to take 10 days off. I mean all the tasks and chores to do and people to call and messages to send and arrangements to make! It is incredible how much we have to do in the modern world,that our ancestors thousands of years ago didn't have to worry about. NOT progress!

That's funny about joining Rio Gay Hosts by accident. I am sure they were welcoming! Let me know if you need any help finding your way around here -- so far you've done well in getting your first post up and your profile set up.

What a gorgeous seaside home you have there!