2. Do NOT let piles of paper accumulate! I finally went through the stack of birthday and Christmas cards and in that stack I found THREE Very Important Items: 1. a letter I thought I had mailed in October (ARE YOU KIDDING ME??) 2. a gift certificate to Luis Nursery (ARE YOU KIDDING ME??) 3. […]
Loving Spring in Three Rivers
Let’s just enjoy some photos. Or how about you enjoy them while I recover from the book project, Springville’s Hospital. And then, I headed to church to work on Phase II of the landscaping project begun a couple of years ago.
Springville’s Hospital: Fighting TB in Tulare County
THE BOOK IS FINISHED! It was a ten-year project, with a giant distraction of a different book getting written and published first—Tales of TB: White Plague of the North, available through BookBaby. Here’s the link: Tales of TB But that was last year. This year, the book is Springville’s Hospital: Fighting TB in Tulare County. […]
Mid-day Walk in Three Rivers
Was it mid-day? or mid-morning? Dunno. Nobody cares. Let’s have some photos. Oops, these are from the early morning walk. Look how much the tulip opened in the 1/2 hour we were on the walk! This is Ray Hartman ceanothus, maybe the best one I’ve seen. There are several in the neighborhood. I like this […]
Field Trip
A dear friend had a birthday and expressed a desire to see my Ivanhoe library mural. I thought we’d just have a little tour, ending with lunch at Super Taco in Woodlake. We barely made the trip before all the green went away. This happens when it gets hot in March. Tryna not be greedy, […]
Morning Walk in Three Rivers
Before the sun hit the ridge across the canyon. Same flowers, after the sun hit the hills across the canyon. Comb Rocks. Now, back to book editing, photo editing, photo captioning and placing, and book formatting.
About That Road Trip
Currently I am doing a final edit, photo edit, and formatting a book that has been a long time coming (about the TB hospital in Springville, here in Tulare County). Things are a bit urgent, so here is a post about my road trip 10 days ago, because this is my blog and I can […]
And Another Little Painting Session
My plan was to get serious about the remaining five Mineral King oil paintings, to focus, finish, and move on. I started with Sawtooth, the 6×6” version that Reader Sharon expressed an interest in. Look at this succession of color mixing. My goal was a light brown, something that might be called “taupe” by the […]
Another Little Painting Session
Suddenly after 2 months of lollygagging, it seems that my life is full of many extracurriculars at the same time that a bit more work has appeared. So, I will squeeze in little sessions of work as I can. First, we had to go down the hill to Big Town. As a passenger, I was […]
New Commission Pencil Drawing
My favorite form of art is pencil drawing. My favorite subjects to draw are architectural. It is fun to tackle subjects that really require thought, careful design, and a bit of artistic license. It is highly satisfying to turn a vague idea from customers into something better than they envisioned. A customer presented me with […]