More cabin photos, to incite nostalgia, or perhaps gratitude, or maybe even curiosity. (All remain anonymous, because we value privacy here on this little corner of the World Wide Web.) These are all mountain cabins, although I do recognize that some of my tens of readers call their beach cottages “cabins”. This last one inspired […]
Cabin Life in Summer, Part One
Our cabin is buttoned up for the season. It is a summer cabin, as are all the cabins in my world. Here is a selection of random photos taken at other people’s cabins, not all this year. Perhaps it will bring on some nostalgia, or maybe it will make you grateful for your modern, spacious, […]
Mineral King, Almost Done for the Year
I have a theory about summer’s heat: when a summer starts out gradually and kindly, it lasts forever. We are living out my prediction this “fall”. On our most recent trip down the hill, it was in the 90s and then the low 100s. So fun in the Botmobile without A/C. Not. The road construction […]
An Odd Job | Bearly Working
I forgot to warn Trail Guy that there was a bear in the workshop and thus, it startled him. The cats were fine with it. He had some spots—bird droppings? dust on his feet? —that I really noticed when I set him on the table to begin painting. Since these customers (very close friends, actually) […]
SOLD in Summer 2026
Every so often I need to see what has sold, or I begin to drift into thinking that I am irrelevant, semi-retired, on the edge of obsolescence, and possibly about to go under. Entirely realistic, as you can see. Not. You’ve seen several (many?) of these in progress, after they were finished and scanned or […]
Cock-a-doodle-doo and Gilroy too
I started this 8×8″ painting of a rooster from A Housewife Writes because I wanted to, not because I think it will have a large market among my tens of followers. I finished it for the same reason. He is wet and shiny in this photo; when he dries, I’ll try to remember to scan […]
October
This is the Homer Barn on Dry Creek Road. I took some liberties with the fence on the right. If this looks familiar, perhaps you are remembering a painting of the barn from a year or two ago. I took liberties with the road, turning it into dirt, and then erased the fence so the […]
Fall Color in Mineral King
Fall color in Mineral King is fairly subtle. Things turn yellow and brown, and then fall off and leave gray behind. But we also have great aspen trees, and when the light is right and all sorts of mysterious factors combine, they can get bright. Reds are rare, so a strong orange is fairly exciting. […]
Another Work Weekend in Mineral King
To summarize this past season in Mineral King, the word “work” comes to mind. The summer began with neighbors coming to Trail Guy (and the Farmer) for help with a nonworking stove, nonworking refrigerator, multiple and various leaks, and a nonworking water heater. Some of these were multiples. . . many neighbors, many problems. It […]