No round-up of the year’s accomplishments, best-of lists, goals for next year—just some photos of another walk in Three Rivers. (Captions are a little bonus for you, or perhaps just an annoyance.) Thank you for continuing with me in this non-eventful, somewhat mundane life as a Central California artist, using pencils, oils and murals to […]
Shhhh. . . going quiet
I’m going quiet for a little while. Nothing to worry about, just ready for a break. I’ll be back. No image from Simply Home today, just a few final photos of fall in Three Rivers. (Check CACHE‘s website for hours, and visit the show if you are so inclined, because the paintings ALWAYS look better […]
Escaping into Fall
Right now I have 2 pencil commissions that both seem a bit too hard for me. One is a collage, combining multiple photos into one cohesive piece of work. I have done this many times. BUT, these are photos that aren’t fitting together very well with lots of little fuzzy-faced people in them. A hard […]
Walking in Three Rivers in Autumn
Another set of days without the internet sent us on a walk in the middle of the day. When virtual life isn’t accessible, try real life. The star of autumn in Three Rivers is the Chinese pistache tree. Excuse me? This is indeed a peculiar sight. The Remoria*l Building has tremendous Chinese pistache trees. This […]
Complaining and Painting
Because this post is full of complaints, I will intersperse the verbal bummerations with nice photos. We had a week when the internet went out 2 or 3 times a day on 4 days, and one of those days it was down all day long. This meant that neither the cell phone nor the landline […]
Walking in Three Rivers
Walking isn’t as easy as it used to be. I walk shorter distances more slowly than I used to, wearing Crocs instead of these shoes, which I now have listed on eBay. Until the time change, my friend and I walked in the dark. Sometimes it felt adventuresome, as if we were getting away with […]
September 27 in Mineral King
I wasn’t there, but Trail Guy brought back good photos of fall color for you. Do you have a favorite? If plein air painting really floated my boat, I’d be there chasing down fall color. Instead, I am probably there packing up for the winter. Next fall, perhaps. . .
Trail Guy Goes to Ranger’s Roost
Do you know “Ranger’s Roost”? It is the higher ground to the west of Timber Gap. I didn’t go. I was at home, dealing with a situation. More on that next week. . . Trail Guy was gobsmacked by the abundance of phlox, as evidenced by the abundance of photographs of phlox. Timber Gap has […]
One Final Peek at Spring in Three Rivers
May Day! Happy May Day, which I think traditionally includes flowers. (Then why do captains of planes and ships yell “MAY DAY!” when they are about to crash?) A few days before I left for Texas, I spent a day working in the yard. Whoooo-eeee, it was hard to leave home. Tucker joined me in […]
Farewell to Spring in Three Rivers, Part II
By the time you are reading this, I hope to be on a flight to Texas. The way flights get cancelled these days, who knows? I could be sitting in a airport, fuming. I hope you are not fuming; instead, I hope you enjoy these last photographs of the most beautiful month in my yard […]