Another view of the Wood Hole Inn from last weekend. On the backside of the building facing the water and Ferry Terminal is a small Taqueria named Quicks Hole. What caught my eye here was the bright green umbrellas and the giant lobster holding the entertainment tonight sign. Extra Fine black pens with Pelikan watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
A spot of color on the porch. A watercolor sketch of the flowers in one of the flower pots on our front porch. A beautiful Tropical Canna and edible Nasturtiums. Utrecht watercolors in a Moleskine 5″ x 8″ watercolor sketchbook.
The Lobster Pound was founded by Frank Collins and Bill Callahan in 1963. Located on historic Manomet Point, The Lobster Pound operates at a location that is no stranger to fresh seafood. The first fish market opened on the Point in 1937. However, it is The Lobster Pound that has truly capitalized on its surroundings. Spectacular location south of Plymouth, MA in Manomet. Faber-Castell Pitt pens in a Stillman and Birn Alpha Sketchbook.
A beautiful morning to sit along the Cape Cod Canal at the Massachusetts maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. The sketch includes the Independence Tug Boat in the foreground with the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge in the up position and the Bourne Bridge in the background. The Independence was built in 2008, by Derektor Shipyard of Bridgeport, Connecticut (hull # 86040) for Boston Towing and Transportation of Boston, Massachusetts. The tug was based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts until 2012 when the tug assumed escort duties in and around Buzzard’s Bay, and the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts.
At the very center of Woods Hole, a storied village playing a lead role in Cape Cod’s colorful history since the 1600’s, stands the Woods Hole Inn. This Cape Cod inn was first erected in 1887, as the area moved beyond its roots as a whaling village and merchant industrial hub, and embraced its future as a cradle of marine science and a summer playground. Originally built with 30 rooms, the four story gabled building was known early on as the Avery House, commanding waterside views of Great Harbor, crowded with merchant sailing ships, as well as the bustling train terminus next door. Back in the day, local lore has it that inn proprietor Mrs. Avery owned a parrot who squawked “Giddyup!” and “Whoa!” from the front porch whenever the horse-drawn mail coach passed. Today, from that same porch, guests can watch the nearby drawbridge go up and down, as it lets all manner of research and pleasure craft in and out of the snug inner harbor called the Eel Pond. Ink work done on site Plein Air and the watercolor added at home later.
The Old Cabot Pond/Old Pond Dam is an earthen dam that was built in 1751, and originally supplied foundaries and forges with waterpower. These foundries/forges supplied cannons for the colonist cause during the American Revolutionary War. Forging continued in the area until about 2007. The plaque below the millstone at the base of the dam embankment for Old Pond states that Mulberry Brook provided power to gristmills as early as 1742 and iron foundries and furnaces as early as 1752. Faber-Castell Pitt pens in a Stillman and Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook.
A beautiful evening for cocktails on our front porch.
Another road trip to New Jersey for work. We stopped at Edgewood Country Club in River Vale, New Jersey to take some measurements of the Mid-way House. Some interesting architecture on the site with this building being probably the oldest with the most architectural detail. Pitt pens with Utrecht Watercolors in an Alpha Series Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
A sketch of a Farmall Tractor at a local nursery. Farmall was a model name and later a brand name for tractors manufactured by the American company International Harvester. Farmalls were general-purpose tractors. Their origins were as row-crop tractors, a category that they helped establish and in which they long held a large market share. During the decades of Farmall production (1920s to 1970s), most Farmalls were built for row-crop work. Most Farmalls were all-purpose tractors that were affordable for small to medium-sized family farms and could do enough of the tasks needed on the farm that the need for hired hands was reduced and the need for horses or mules was eliminated. Holbein watercolors, black markers in a Moleskine watercolor sketchbook.
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as the sport’s most complete library, in addition to promoting and preserving the history of basketball and is dedicated to Canadian-American doctor and inventor of the sport James Naismith. In 2002, the Basketball Hall of Fame moved into a $47 million facility designed by architects Gwathmey Siegal and Associates. The building’s architecture features a metallic silver, basketball-shaped sphere flanked by two similarly symmetrical rhombuses. Quick sketch from a photo taken in the car stopped in traffic on the highway on the way to a presentation. Faber-Castell Pitt pens with Utrecht watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
A SKETCHBOOK ODYSSEY 