2. Jury duty is a rough way to spend a day because it is so boring and feels like a complete disregard of the value of time. Be there at 9, sit in a room until 11, half the people get called, the other half gets sent out to waste 2-1/2 hours, returning for another […]
Mineral King, (But it’s not Friday!)
In order to do my August calendar picture post and the Learned-in-July-List in a timely manner, this week’s Mineral King report is landing on the wrong day. Flex with me, Readers! It was a time of many people in our neighborhood, with much socializing and renewal of friendships. I felt as if I fit in, […]
Iconic Three Rivers Business Drawing Inching forward
No time for jibber-jabber. There’s a big drawing that needs a ton of time! So much measuring.* Oooh, those tiny letters. See you tomorrow. *OF COURSE I MEASURE! If it took tools to build it, it takes tools to draw it.
Finishing the Sequoia Panel
The first day of painting on the sequoia panel was way too hot, with the sun pounding on me and drying out my palette. The second day of painting took place inside the workshop with the doors closed and the swamp cooler roaring. I didn’t think there would be enough light, so I set up […]
Drawing an Iconic Business in Three Rivers
Reimer’s Candies and Ice Cream is a destination and a landmark in Three Rivers, California. It is now on its fourth owner in my lifetime, and it is just as busy as ever, just as popular, just as magnetic. I drew it for the second owners, people with the name of Reimer, who bought it […]
The Mules of Mineral King
Book This is the title of a very good book about Mineral King, written by a cabin guy who began working at the pack station at age 12. Last Saturday Kevin Alltucker spoke at the annual Mineral King Preservation Society’s Picnic in the Park. Great storyteller, excellent speaker, knew how to reach the crowd and […]
Painting Another Sequoia Panel (+ an Infomercial)
The panel isn’t made out of sequoia wood; the panel is made out of ?? wood, and I am painting a sequoia tree on it. Sequoia gigantea is the official name for the redwood trees in Sequoia National Park, not the redwoods of northern California, called Sequoia sempervirens. Those are tall; ours are thick. Two […]
Sawtooth and Me
50 years ago today I got medevacked* off Sawtooth. A group of high school kids were on a backpacking trip in Mineral King, a week long loop. We were fully chaperoned by experienced adults, age 32. (Why does that no longer seem like an adult age??) We camped at Columbine Lake below Sawtooth with a […]
Eureka! Part 2
The carpenter brought ”Aunt Em’s” completed stained glass window to the house to install it. More decisions: facing the garden or facing the laundry room? Hang inside or outside? Trail Guy and I had both thought that outside made the most sense. Not sure why, but since we were in agreement, it felt like the […]
Eureka! (I have found it)
WARNING: LONG STORY When I was a child, “Aunt Em” lived next door to my Great Aunt Mary in Three Rivers. She was a retired teacher, a “spinster” in the vernacular of the day, probably a bit eccentric. She had designed her own home and filled it with antiques. When we were allowed to visit […]