Back in the day when I used a real camera, a complicated drawing might take 2 rolls of film. Now that the restraint of “wasting film” has been obliterated, I take as many photos as I want! It is such a nice thing to never stop to change rolls. Despite the abundance of images, there […]
Mineral King Wildflowers, continued
Have you ever looked for blue flowers at the nursery? They are rare in the domestic world of flowers. Not so in the wild! Here are blue flowers in Mineral King whose names I know: Languid Ladies aka Sierra Bluebells Forget-me-nots aka Sierra Stickseed Blue Lips Five Spot Explorer’s Gentian Wild Blue Flax (with […]
Mineral King Wildflowers
I own 4 wildflower books. It isn’t enough. There are so many flowers whose names I can’t find. Why does this matter? Given that man’s first job was to name the animals, perhaps I am just following in the foots of my oldest ancestor! Today, let’s look at white flowers whose names I do know. […]
Sharing Mineral King, part 2
On day 2 in Mineral King, S’s younger daughter woke up very excited to go fishing with Michael. She is highly competitive and it is reported that the first words from her mouth that a.m. were “I’m going to smoke that old man!” “That old man” had to get his fly rod ready for […]
Sharing Mineral King
If you have been a follower of this blog for 2 years, you may have read of my good friend S. (Did some painting in her dining room, and called her when I had a huge rattler that I was too weenie to deal with). We made arrangements for S and her 2 daughters to […]
That Yellow Flower in Mineral King
There is a flower that blooms in profusion in Mineral King. It has been incorrectly called “mule ears”, “arnica” and “sneezeweed”. I know all those, and this isn’t them. It appears to be in the sunflower family and always looks scraggly, even when first in bloom. I tend to think of it […]
Day Fourteen On The Mural
yesterday TODAY! Okay, I admit I had a little help from a friend. Watch for an article in the Visalia Times-Delta about the mural by Teresa Douglass. No date of publication as of yet. . . more will be revealed!
Day Thirteen on the Mural
This is the before and after of today’s painting session: Doesn’t look as if there is a great deal of real estate to be covered here. Looks can fool you! Because each photo was taken from a different vantage point, I keep getting confused as to which level of rocks, individual rocks, trees […]
Peculiar sights #9
One day I was just speeding along my walk, minding my own beeswax, trying to keep up the pace, and WHAM! I threw on the brakes and went marching up to the kitchen window of some friends’ house because I recognized my own paintings! Just kind of surprised me – like unexpectedly seeing the face […]
Cranking them out!
One of the best things that ever happens to working artists is receiving a check in the mail for paintings sold, especially when one has forgotten about said paintings! I sent 6 paintings of beachy things to Lady Spencer in Cayucos, California. Gina is an old friend from Exeter, and her store is full of lovely items […]