Are you ready to see some Mineral King footage that isn’t a road report or a show/sale report? We had the pleasure of hiking to White Chief with Hiking Buddy and The Farmer on Sunday, July 1. Someone moved White Chief farther away than last year. They also tilted the trail to a steeper angle. […]
Art Inspired by Mineral King
On June 29, I participated in the 2nd annual Art Inspired by Mineral King. This is the title of a show and sale on the deck of the Silver City Store, 4 miles below the Mineral King Valley. I headed up the road the day before the show, my first time up this season (resulting […]
Mineral King Road
Road update from Sequoia Roads Supervisor: The current plan is for the Sequoia Road Crew to return to maintenance on the Mineral King road as soon as the current road center and fog line striping project is completed through the Giant Forest area this week.Mineral King road maintenance will consist of spot brushing priority areas, […]
More Mineral King Wildflowers
Mineral King Wildflowers
Mineral King Wildflowers is the name of the book I published in March of this year. In it, I said that most of the wildflowers in Mineral King hit their peak in July. This year it might be even truer, because the June flowers are still blooming in July. But perhaps the July flowers will […]
More Mineral King
There are always trade-offs in life. Tomorrow you get to see which wildflowers were in bloom in Mineral King last week.
Mineral King, Finally
It has been an unusual year for Mineral King. Due to a heavy winter, a road trip to the Phoenix area, and a family emergency, I didn’t make it up the hill until last week. Trail Guy has been there and brought me his camera so I could experience Mineral King via photographs, the same […]
Art Inspired by Mineral King
SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 10-2, SILVER CITY RESORT Featuring the oil paintings and pencil drawings of Jana Botkin and the photography of Brett Harvey
Proud
When my students finish a drawing, I take it home to scan and convert into a file that can be used for printing as cards or prints to share or sell; sometimes it is just so they can have a clean record of work completed. Sometimes it takes a few hours of computer work, but […]
Finally
After finishing the pencil drawing of the irresistible subject, I didn’t want to stop drawing. I used this desire for drawing to get another pencil drawing finished. Why did I wait so long to work on this? I think it is a good drawing, and if one of my students did this, I would be […]