Still More, and the Cape Bear Light

Sometimes when I get back to Nebraska I realize I don't have photos of everything, and I like to have them so I can visit when I want and look around, so here are even MORE photographs of the interior and some of the work that has been completed recently.

Above is the award that Mom and Dad accepted last year for the restoration of the house from the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation. The Lieutenant Governor Frank Lewis presented it to them at a ceremony at the Eptek Centre in Summerside, winter of 2014.

Above is the charcoal sketch I did of the house Grammy grew up in in Abney. It was one of the first charcoal drawings I ever did. I remember drawing it at the dining room table in that same room, summer of 1983. I was staying there with Grammy and Grampy that summer. I was 16.  

Dad and Mom finished the second floor hall and stairs since we were there the previous year. The floor has been painted and Dad finished the baseboard trim.

Dad did a light refinishing of the railing and it looks fantastic.

David and I sent several boxes of clothes and stuff and set up our room. Now when we go to the Island we don't need to take luggage.

David took off one day and came back with this dresser he found in an antique store in Charlottetown.

Our cedar lined closet. Our room is one of the last that needs work. Last year when the trim was being installed, we ran out and this bedroom still needs trim, and the floor needs to be painted. We probably should have waited to get the room done before fully moving in, but we'll deal with that when the work commences.

 The front bedroom is done. Dad finished and painted the trim and Mom painted the floor.

Dad put the red window back in.

This is one of the first watercolour paintings I ever did. Its again Grammy's childhood home in Abney. I gave it to her for Christmas in 1986 and it used to hang in her living room in Lakeburn.

Found this painting in a shop in Charlottetown   

This painting is of the Wallace Museum in Wallace Nova Scotia. Its a project I worked on around 2000, and I did this little watercolour of it at the time. Its been sitting on a shelf ever since so I took it to the Island and had it framed in Charlottetown.

The painting above is by David's Aunt Bev. He gave it to Mom and Dad as an anniversary gift. She passed away a couple of years ago. She used to have shows in galleries in Lincoln.

Mom and Dad repainted the basement bathroom, after the tile and trim was completed.

The mechanical room, which is also Dad's project room.

The back hall

The bench was built last year, and the lid lifts and is a laundry chute to the bathroom/ laundry room below. I had the cushions made in Lincoln and mailed them.

View out through the old wavy glass

A few years ago I bought this page of the 1880 Meacham's Atlas of PEI. Its from an original printing and in colour. Finally got it framed too.

On this same page is this view of Murray River...

...and Duncan Munn's place at the shore. He was a cousin to Dan Munn, my great-great-grandfather. The House is still there.

The painting I did for Dad for Christmas in 1998 of the place in Hopefield.

The photo of Dan Munn that David shipped to the Island for me last year. I got a small copy of the photo from Viola in 1983, and the same summer I found the frame at a yard sale near Montague, so I refinished the frame and had the photo enlarged to fit the frame in 1984.

David and I spent a day in Charlottetown

Province House

I obviously love this building

View of the rose window of Saint Dunstan's from an alley on Queen Street.  

My favourite architect has always been William Harris (1854-1913) who lived in Charlottetown and then Halifax. I photographed all of his buildings when I was in my teens and early 20s, about 150 total, and when I see again one I photograph again. This is the Connolly Block on Lower Queen Street that he designed in 1889.

Dad, David and I drove out to Cape Bear to take a look at the new location of the lighthouse.

Looking rough, but they are working on it, and its great that it was saved from falling over the cliff!

Then we took a drive down to the point