After a book-signing in Medina, NY (and a really fast lunch scarfed down in the car on the NY Thruway), we arrived at the Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery in Canandaigua for a second Saturday event. This one featured the original SPITFIRE cover painting (which I hadn’t seen before this weekend!).
We signed another 65 books at the Canandaigua event and basked in the beautiful setting. The gallery has a show on called “Small Works…Small Wonders,” and I found myself getting lost in the paintings whenever we had a break. My mom, Spitfire cover artist Gail Smith Schirmer, has a number of paintings in that show through November 3rd. But there’s one small work in particular that’s gone…
This one came home to Lake Champlain with me.
Kate,
Got your book in the mail yesterday. It’s so lovely!
Your cover is gorgeous and so is your mom! You look just like her. Glad you had such a great time.
Oh, I love these pictures. Yay you! Yay book! Yay MOM!!!
Thanks, Julie! I’m glad it arrived.
Thank you, Linda – Comparing me to my mom is just about the best compliment ever. :^)
If I could have been in two places at once, I would have been at Bear Pond with you this weekend, too. Hope it went well!
Thanks, Carrie!
Oh my goodness!
Your mom is the artist of the front cover painting?!
That is amazingly wonderful!
Thanks! I think it’s amazingly wonderful, too. I did a blog interview with her a few days ago if you want to read more about how that happened.
Wonderful photos. Glad you and your mom had such a great time. I love the photo of you two. You have her smile.