For the benefit of those who haven't seen Selected Works of Janet Wendy Last, I'll place some samples of her paintings in this post. These three of her paintings all appear in her book. The bottom picture is a view of Hampton Park from our town house in Buell Street. This is a water colour, one of my favourites among all the pictures she has painted; the landscape shown in the topmost picture is the view we had from our home at 5 Greenbank Crescent, Edinburgh: this is what we saw when we looked out our living room or dining room windows, or out our bedroom window (orDavid's bedroom window) upstairs. It's a spectacularly beautiful view, along Braidburn Park with its little stream ("burn" in Scots) towards Fairmilehead and the backdrop of the Pentland Hills. Even after more than forty years since we sold our home in Edinburgh and moved to Ottawa, I miss that view. The middle picture is a profusion of flowers in Janet Byron Anderson's garden at her home near Cleveland, Ohio. Wendy painted this from photos that Janet sent us. She lives so close to Ottawa, just across Lake Ontario, it's such a pity we've met only when she visited us in Ottawa a few years ago.
Today's the day we expect Janet Wendy's nephew Ivon Hurst and his wife Wendy to arrive in Ottawa, a week later than originally scheduled, but better late than never, and they will have the added bonus of spring in its full glory, the Canal full rather than the muddy ditch it is until the lock gates are closed. I must soon leave to collect them at the airport, so I'll sign off this post.
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