Good day to stay inside.

My View.  It is very wintry outside today and I am glad I have  a vacation day, one more day to stay home and relax and play with my pastels.  Monday is a great day to take off! 

I live on the "Fresh Coast" and this is my view in winter of the Port Washington marina, harbor and lighthouse.  This piece shows the marina before they put in the floating piers.  Port Washington is a small town of around 10,000, kind of like the place I grew up in, Nevada, IA.  We have a small town newspaper where sooner or later everyone gets their picture published-birth, graduation, marriage, death.  I've lived here only 6 years and I have been in the paper 2-3 times even though I didn't get born, graduate, marry or die!

This marina is a great example of a community investing in their infrastructure.  When the marina was first proposed, a lot of people here didn't want it, didn't want to spend the money, didn't want things to change, thought it would never be used.  The politicians who voted to proceed were all thrown out of office at the next election.  I cannot imagine this lakefront without it.