IBM

I----I've
B----Been
M----Moved

A long time acronym for the comapany of IBM. I don't know if it stands true anymore because my late husband retired after working for IBM for 30 years about 19?? (can't remember, over 15 years ago at least). At any rate, we started moving with IBM in 1975 and lived in 4-5 places because of IBM. We learned to enjoy the local artist where ever we moved and made it a practice to purchase a painting in each place we lived. I will show you some of the art work we purchased.





This picture is one of my favorites. My husband, early in life (high school) was a serious photographer. He took wedding pictures, working in a photo shop and earned spending money and did the same while working his way through college. He and I each had twin Suzuki 850 touring motorcycles (purchased while we were living in Danbury, CT) on which we took many memorable road trips. We took one trip from Danbury, CT to Nova Scotia. While we were there the Lupins were in full bloom and as tall as our thighs. He enjoyed taking pictures of churches. He took this picture and we had it painted from the picture after we moved to Tucson, AZ. The church in the photo was not a very picturesque church, being an old, old clapboard building so he gave the artist another picture of a prettier church and she painted it in.

This is the only picture my husband ever purchased w/out me. He had accepted a job in Boulder, CO and as typical of our moves, was there before the rest of us while we remained behind trying to sell our house. As you can see, it is a picture of the Aspen trees and a mountain river. It must have spoken to him.




This picture is one of the first oil paintings we ever purchased. We started in San Jose, CA (good ol' silicone valley). We purchased three paintings by this lady. Her name is Nancy Kaiser. She told us that she was in Spain when she saw the possibility of a painting in what she was seeing outside a restaurant window. There was a gardner tending the flowers in the old cart and when she approached him to ask permission to take a picture of the cart, not understanding English but seeing her camera, was very flattered and made a nice pose with a big smile for the picture. Of course, as you can see, she painted only the picture she had in mind, sans the gardner. It is a very large picture that I have hanging over my piano.


No more pictures for now, I have knitting to do.