Hmmmm, this is a continuation on my amazing friend, Barbara. Should it be chapter two or chapter three? Who cares? You’ve got to see her gardens on the Three Rivers Hidden Gardens Tour. Here are a few photos from 2 years ago to whet your appetite.
My Amazing Friends, Chapter Two
This will be a long post. I hope you will savor it, instead of filing it in the category of TLDR*. The series, My Amazing Friends, began this week with Bob. Let’s continue with Barbara, also of Three Rivers, a gardener extraordinaire. Barbara grows many plants, knows them all and is best known for her […]
My Amazing Friends, Chapter One
The word “amazing” is overused these days. It is often pronounced “uh-MAY-zing” and has taken the place formerly occupied by “awesome”, pronounced “AHHH-sum”. My uh-MAY-zing and Oh-so-wise Dad was bothered by the description inflation of “awesome”. He said that very little was truly awesome, short of God or his (God’s, not Dad’s) handiwork. I’ve grown […]
An Odd Job
As a California artist based in rural Tulare County, I am willing to do odd jobs. Odd art jobs, that is. (Please don’t call me to wash your windows – they will probably turn out odd.) Staying in the business of art in a place like this means saying, “Yes” when asked to do odd […]
Not Much Snow in March in Mineral King
Not much snow on Sawtooth. Not much snow in the valley looking toward Farewell Gap. No snow on the south-facing slopes; not much snow on the north facing slope on the Sawtooth trail. Not much snow for March.
Commissioned Pencil Drawing, Completed
Being able to draw scenes like this is one of the main reasons I am a California artist in Tulare County. Don’t you just want to live here? Forget it – we have high unemployment, bad air, and lots of fat people. There. A one-woman population control committee. That’s me!
Decisions, Decisions
The commissioned pencil drawing presented several challenges. When a place is really beautiful, visually captivating, unusually interesting, my oh my it is difficult to choose the right view! I didn’t intend to draw this view but thought it made a nice photo. The door by which one enters a building is considered the “face” and […]
Commissioned Pencil Drawing Coming Up
I’m drawing my brains out, working on The Cabins of Wilsonia. (Okay, I’m not really drawing my brains out – I need them for stuff like posting to my blog. Try not to take me too literally here.) When I get commissions, I take a break from that Giant Project. There is a house here in […]
Making Stuff, Chapter 5
Tile, tile, everywhere! Anyone out there aware of Pinterest? I’ve heard it can suck you in, turn you into a materialistic and self-centered spoiled brat who wastes hours looking at stuff, wishing for stuff, and collecting pictures of stuff. Me? It just makes me want to make more stuff. Useful, functional, beautiful Real Stuff. I […]
Making Stuff, Chapter 4
Usable, functional, beautiful, real stuff that I made myself. This is the grown up version of a toddler saying “Me do it!!” No pipe cleaners (are those actually for cleaning pipes?) or glue guns for this chick! Last time I warned you not to put tile on things that were rotting. This time I am […]