Tag: Sid Couchey
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Boathouse Rainbow
I’d been working on a different blog post to share with you today when this enchanting snapshot appeared on my phone. So I’m bumping “Whisper on Time” until tomorrow (I hope it’ll be worth the wait!), and showcasing this spirit-lifting boathouse rainbow photo instead. Just came off the ferry and this very bright rainbow happened!…
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Champy Spotted at Essex Ferry Dock (circa 1980?)
Champy spotted at Essex ferry dock?!?! Once upon a time… I’m gambling that it was around 1980 for no reliable reasons except the look and condition of the Old Dock Restaurant, the presence of ice shanties on a throughly frozen lake with no ferry canal, and the incredibly well executed snow/ice sculpture just north of…
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Why Reboot Rosslyn Redux?!?!
Yesterday I mentioned that the day was “an especially significant milestone for me“, but I postponed further explanation. Today, I’ll touch on this personal achievement by way of revisiting another previously postponed promise. Both obliquely reveal themselves in this excerpt from my October 10, 2022 update, “Old House Journaling“. Yesterday marked ten weeks of old house journaling.…
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Old Stump Bridge in Whallons Bay
Back in July I received a comment from Heidi LaBate about an Essex painting created by the late Sid Couchey. I have an original oil painting done by Sid couchey in the mid to late 1950’s. It is off old stump bridge in whallons bay. Sid gifted the painting to my grandfather when my grandfather was the…
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Rosslyn Roundup, May 4
It’s time for another Rosslyn Roundup to share everything Rosslyn-related that I didn’t get a chance to post over the last few weeks. Champlain Valleysprings are unpredictable and exciting, sometimes arriving early (this year) and other times hiding behind rain, rain, rain (last year). We’ve been celebrating our good fortune (quietly, with fingers crossed, while…
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Remembering Essex Cartoonist, Sid Couchey
On a gray November afternoon back in 2010, Ruth and Sid Couchey rang my doorbell to present this playful rendering of Rosslyn’s boathouse. We sat in the living room and talked and laughed until the dreary afternoon yielded to technicolor levity. Sid Couchey’s Legacy of Laughter [pullquote]With a perennial twinkle in his eye and a…