Ward’s Berry Farm is a family farm located in Sharon, MA. Brothers Jim & Bob Ward have run the farm since 1982, offering the finest quality fresh picked fruits and veggies. Their mother, Ann uses family favorite recipes to create her famous fruit jams and jellies sold in the store. The colors of summer are starting to show at Ward’s Berry Farm. At the peak of summer, the flowers and colors will take over this scene on the ground and trellis. Faber-Castell Pit Art pens, Pelikan watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.

The Market at Pine Hills in Plymouth, MA is a fantastic quality community market within the Pine Hill Golf Development. The barn like structure is enhanced with a glass curtain wall at the entry, colorful fruits and produce in wood displays outside the entry, colorful flowers,tall pine trees and café seating under umbrellas. Faber-Castell Pitt Art Pens and Utrecht Watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Alpha series 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.