The Queen City of the North!

I just got back to Milwaukee from a visit to Marquette, Michigan on the shores of majestic Lake Superior.  What a fantastic part of the country with tons to do - Blueberry Fest, Art on the Rocks and The Outback Air Fair.  Not to mention I got to go to the beach EVERY DAY.  ALSO, ate great food, laughed my butt off, drank rosé-spritzers on the beach, played with dogs and, the best part, I got to spend some quality time with my brother Drew, my sis-in-law Kari who is the Marquette native and  awesome ambassador of her hometown, and their cute and funny kids, Maija and Finnegan.  AND AND AND I found some time to paint in Downtown Marquette.  I'm not quite done and will have to finish in the studio, but I got to spend two evenings in a "parking space studio" observing the late light and talking to passer-byers.  Marquette is on EST so it stays light until about 10pm.  Surreal!   
    Here's a collection of things people said to me or that I overheard::
 "HEY!  Painter Lady!  So, do you just ride around and paint out of your car?"  "So, what's your real job?"  "Did you paint that?"  "Can I look at it?"  "Is the pink some sort of back-action?" "Whoa - this wasn't here when we went to dinner an hour ago..."