Glorious Last Day of August

What a perfect day on the mid-coast of Maine today. The sky was brilliant blue and the air was dry and just slightly cool. We set off on an adventure to Cushing to see the Olsen House. The Olsen House is the real life sight of over 300 works of art my Andrew Wyeth.

You would know it from the famous painting of Christina’s world, of the young disabled woman lying on the grass crawling toward her house up the hill. The house, built in the 1800’s still stands with the barn across the way. It is owned by the Farnsworth Museum and has been closed to visitors while it under goes a renovation that has been taking quite a while.

Andrew and Betsy Wyeth are buried in the little cemetery down by the shore on the property along with the Olsen family. We were able to walk around the property and see the gravestones. I tried to reenact the Christina’s world painting, but a stand of big pine trees blocks the view of the house. The trees could have been there when Wyeth painted Christina’s world and he just chose to leave them out.

After our cultural tour we drove over to the sweet village of friendship and had lobster rolls for lunch. This is a photo of how good it was.

The dogs were exhausted from our big outing so we went home to take some naps and enjoy of time together. After dinner we played Cards against humanity, which is always very embarrassing for Russ. Despite his protests he almost won, but I bested him by 3 cards.