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 […]
A Little Painting
English is confusing. “A little painting” could mean I painted a little bit or that I painted a small painting. What if in this case it means I painted a little bit on 3 small paintings? And I painted a little bit on a (for me) huge painting? Then you’d have today’s title and today’s […]
Deciding What to Paint Next
Sometimes it might be nice to have a boss or maybe a crystal ball or even a mentor or a board of directors. When deciding what to paint next, there are days when I think how good it is to just do whatever I want; other times I wish someone else would tell me what […]
Learned in May
Is it possible I didn’t learn anything in May? Or is it that I just didn’t keep track? (Who said, “You learn something new every day?”) What can I pull out of my memory from just the past 30 days? How about these 7 items: I sold something on eBay for $20 and charged $5 […]
On Naming Flowers
Why does it matter what a flower’s name is? Why do I want to know? Why did it matter enough to me to spend 2 years chasing, photographing, writing, designing, and ultimately publishing Mineral King Wildflowers: Common Names? My first answer to that question is “inquiring minds need to know”. My second answer (borrowed from a friend who said […]
Book Signing Tomorrow
A Summer Place in Winter
Today I am in route to Florida, unable to post, so here is something that happened on Saturday. Mineral King is a summer place, but occasionally we visit in winter. (I probably won’t be able to post tomorrow either, so we’ll just have to bravely soldier on for a bit.) The flowers were fantabulous along […]
Sort of Empty
One morning this week as I set up to paint, I looked at several of the paintings that I formerly thought were finished. They looked sort of empty. These next two look almost the same. I used the same photo, but one is 8×8″ and the other is 6×6″. I don’t have enough skill to […]