Encouraging Card~Major's Bay Encouraging Card with Scripture on the Back Illustrated by Suzanne Davis Harden

Major's Bay Encouraging Card This encouraging card features a print of an oil painting I did several years ago for my husband. We had traveled with my sister and her husband to St. Kitts one winter to escape the cold. While the three of them snorkeled in the beautiful calm waters of the Caribbean, I chose to sit on the shore and sketch the abandoned boat tied up beside the mountains. That spot was so peaceful; it was called Major's Bay. I marveled at the brilliant colors of the sea, sky and mountains, as the gulls sang all around me. The pungent smell of the water filled the air, gentle waves lapped around my feet while I sketched my picture. I remembered all of these things when I came home and painted the scene in oils on masonite panel from my sketches and photos. A couple of years later I had to have a surgical procedure and the nurse wanted me to relax by having me focus on some beautiful memory. It was my memory of Major's Bay that comforted and calmed me so much that all