One Very Fine Week in Little Corn Island, Nicaragua

This is one of the paintings that will be in my upcoming art show. It’s not the best painting, in my opinion, nor is it the largest painting - by any means - yet it’s my favorite. And here’s why:

It was painted from a photograph one of my kids took of me on Little Corn Island in Nicaragua. Our youngest son D and his wife, A lived in Nicaragua. Son G and his wife M along with daughter D and I went down to visit. They hired a little plane to take us from the Pacific side of the country to the Caribbean side where we landed on Big Corn Island. From there we got on a Panga, it’s the biggest open boat I’ve ever seen, which seated about 40 people, and it carried us some 15 miles across to Little Corn Island.  Once we landed there we had to walk along the island’s edge on the west to the east side of the island where there were little cabins. There are no cars and no golf carts. The only way to get around on this island is to walk!! Its population is 7,400 English-speaking residents, and the place we stayed had a chef from the Culinary Institute of America. Every meal, including breakfast, was a gourmets treat. There were hammocks on the beach and hammocks on the porches of the little cabins. So very relaxing and a wonderful treat each day. I think of it as the best vacation I have ever had in my life. Loved it. Love the photo and especially love the painting! Come see it?