Voting and Stealing Forsythia Branches

We are settling back in on the coast of Maine. I'm still fighting this damn cold, so I'm mostly resting and taking it easy. We did get out briefly yesterday and vote in Maine's Super Tuesday Primary. Then we spent most of the evening watching the results of the voting. We both voted for Joe Biden, as we think he has the best chance of beating Trump. It seems to me good news that most of the candidates are rallying around and supporting Joe. It isn't that I have anything against Bernie, but I just don't think he can do anything he promises. Joe is a decent man and it would be nice to have a president who is a decent man again. With that said, if Bernie does win the nomination, I will vote for him. I hope the BernieBots feel the same way.

Today, I had to get out of the house, so I decided to walk up the street and steal some cuttings from a neighbor's forsythia bush. I would ask the neighbor if the minded if I took some of their branches, but nobody is currently living there.

It is the Stephen Pace House. He was a pretty famous American painter whose summer home is a few doors up from where I currently live. Pace bequeathed his summer home to the Maine College of Art as a gallery and artist residency. Artists live there from June-September and you can go inside and see some of Pace's art on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the summer. Shane and I did go once and talked to one of the artist living there. Below are the bare branches I stole this morning. I hope in a few days they will be beautiful blooming sticks.

The Stephen Pace House in Stonington, Maine.

The scene of the crime. You can see the large Forsythia bush behind the house in this shot.There are plenty of branches to spare.

Anyway, nobody is living at the Pace House at the moment and there is a large, Forsythia bush is the backyard. I'm certain Mr. Pace wouldn't mind, though I never had the pleasure of meeting him. He died years before we moved here. We purchased our house from the family of Perry Hunter, who used to live here before he died. Apparently Pace and Hunter were friends, as Pace gave Hunter one of his paintings and also a signed coffee table book of his art. Both items came with our house when we purchased it.

This painting by Stephen Pace came with the contents of the house we bought in Stonington.

Below are more examples of Pace's art. He had a pretty interesting life. He served in World War II where he designed posters for the Army and was later injured. After the war, he went to Paris to paint and met Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso. He has had his painting exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among others. The lily pond paintings below is of the lily pond down our road.