52 Card Project 2021: Week 34: Stillwater
Aug. 26th, 2021 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrFiona has been having a tough couple of months at work and needed some rest and relaxation. So the two of us decided to make a day trip to Stillwater, a town on the edge of the St. Croix river with some lovely antique shops and boutiques. The trip was extremely successful and we enjoyed ourselves hugely. It was delightful to spend the day with my beloved girl.
We stopped at an antique shop and wandered around admiring dishes and old Victorian furniture. Fiona bought a porcelain cup and saucer and I bought a Christmas teapot with matching creamer and sugar. Lunch was a place called Nacho Mama, which had delicious and generous portions. We ended up at an art gallery where Fiona dropped a generous sum on a painting that caught her heart, depicting an old-fashioned sailing ship caught in a storm at night, menaced from down below by underwater sea monsters. It was painted by the guy who has painted many of the civic murals around the city.
We came back to the Cities tired out and having dropped a respectable spot of cash, but neither of us regretted it for an instant. We haven't been able to take a vacation this summer, and we won't be able to go to the Renaissance Festival as we usually do this time of year, because of Covid. This was a fine way for us to spend a day together having fun.
After doing a one-image digital card last week, I'm back to something a little busier. The background is a washed out image of the shopfronts that line the streets of downtown Stillwater. Over that I layered a picture of Fiona enjoying our lunch at Nacho Mama's with a few other things seen that day. The stone lion guards the entrance of the Lowell Inn, one of the lovely hotels in city (we've had afternoon tea there before). No afternoon tea this time, but I still have affection for the place. The sign at the top is for the gallery where Fiona bought her painting.
Stillwater
Click here to read about the 52 card project and see the year's gallery.
We stopped at an antique shop and wandered around admiring dishes and old Victorian furniture. Fiona bought a porcelain cup and saucer and I bought a Christmas teapot with matching creamer and sugar. Lunch was a place called Nacho Mama, which had delicious and generous portions. We ended up at an art gallery where Fiona dropped a generous sum on a painting that caught her heart, depicting an old-fashioned sailing ship caught in a storm at night, menaced from down below by underwater sea monsters. It was painted by the guy who has painted many of the civic murals around the city.
We came back to the Cities tired out and having dropped a respectable spot of cash, but neither of us regretted it for an instant. We haven't been able to take a vacation this summer, and we won't be able to go to the Renaissance Festival as we usually do this time of year, because of Covid. This was a fine way for us to spend a day together having fun.
After doing a one-image digital card last week, I'm back to something a little busier. The background is a washed out image of the shopfronts that line the streets of downtown Stillwater. Over that I layered a picture of Fiona enjoying our lunch at Nacho Mama's with a few other things seen that day. The stone lion guards the entrance of the Lowell Inn, one of the lovely hotels in city (we've had afternoon tea there before). No afternoon tea this time, but I still have affection for the place. The sign at the top is for the gallery where Fiona bought her painting.
Click here to read about the 52 card project and see the year's gallery.