Fish Family Farms - August 7, 2018
This week our plein air artists made their way to Bolton, CT. Fish Family Farms, located on Dimock Lane is an historic farm that nearly became extinct, until local real estate magnate Donald Fish purchased the farm. Fish Family Farm and Creamery offers wonderful views from their hillside location and their dairy store products are made at the farm from Jersey cows, known for their rich milk. We are truly in the dog days of summer. August has been primarily a tropical soup with temperatures reaching well into the 90's, and Tuesday morning was no exception. June was the first to arrive around 9 a.m. followed by Linda. The rest of the artists rolled in mostly before 9:30. Our motley crew was made up of June and Linda, Susan, Paul, Adrianna, Penny, Bonnie and Sally. We walked around the farm, looking for a likely subject to attack, making sure our setting up would be in a nice shady spot. We all seemed drawn to similar subjects. Donald Fish is something of a collector of anti...