Florence Griswold Museum

Just off the Interstate (95) in Old Lyme is a fetching big yellow house. This boarding house on Main Street backing up to the Lieutenant River was home to the Connecticut Impressionists Art Colony. Walk the grounds and gardens but go for the large art exhibit. Life-long collector, Clemmet C. Moore, specialized in the Connecticut Impressionists before it was cool.

The amazing collection fills most of the new exhibit hall (a strange futuristic white rendition of a barn) and you can plan of finding dear favorites that you may or may not find in the companion book published with the show.

I loved the inclusion of many showscapes and my husband was captured deep in the heart by a harbor scene with seagulls. We lingered, walked the gardens and lingered again with the paintings. Yes, we are goofy in love, but the paintings made us linger. This show runs through October 18, 2009.

On the way out of town we picked up an iced tea, juice, and a cookie for $15.65! I suggest you bring your lunch.

www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org