Not too far from ticky-tacky honky-tonky Broadway in downtown Nashville is The Hermitage. This nearly 1200 acre National Park was once Andrew Jackson’s home. The day we visited on our recent trip was cool, overcast and kinda gloomy. The main house was undergoing some renovations, so we got a break on the entry fee as consolation. But I thought all the draped plastic sheeting and blue painter’s tape made the place even more interesting. That, combined with the soft natural light seeping in from the downcast day outside gave the place a kind of eerie, pensive mood. I took photos (of course) and, although the results were nice visual records of a museumy place having a facelift on a gray day, they didn’t quite express the mood. The painter in me imagined these scenes rendered more contemplatively through paint on canvas. I played around in Photoshop to give them a more painterly effect. Not quite paintings, but you get the picture.