The Big Cowboy Adventure

A few days later Miss Mary and I left for a 12-day trip to Wyoming & Idaho! Miss Mary was invited out to paint in the wilderness of Idaho & Wyoming at a workshop with Scott Christensen, a famous western landscape painter.

 
In the mornings I worked on the songs for my new CD (coming soon!) and in the afternoon went out on painting trips with Mary where we saw real cowboys and even got caught in the middle of a cattle drive.  Boy was that exciting!  One minute it was quiet and the birds were singing and the next we were surrounded by cows running and mooing on all sides!  The cowboys on horses with their trusty dogs were herding the cows out of their summer pastures in the mountains to their winter pastures in the valley.  Golly, those cows were not happy.  They were having fun playing and running around the canyons!

Marcus visited the Driggs Elementary School the next day to sing and play games with the first grade. It was an exciting day! Marcus told them about Maine and the Atlantic Ocean.  Everyone was happy to hear about this interesting place called Maine. The children in Driggs live in a big valley in the middle of the Rocky Mountains and most of the children had never seen an ocean.

 Later that week for two nights in a row we could hear the wolves howling at night to the moon. How exciting it was to hear them singing their songs!  

 The days flew by, Mary painted a pile of paintings and soon we were headed on our way though the mountains to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to catch our plane back home. After three days of early snowstorms in the mountains we were happy to come back to Maine and nice sunny October weather!