I have a favorite bridge. I love to draw and paint architecture, and the bridge over the East Fork of the Kaweah River (on the Mineral King Road) is one of the most beautiful architectural structures in Tulare County. Currently it is in jeopardy with 4 alternatives for repairing or replacing it. I don’t want […]
Thankful
Here is a short list of things for which I am thankful today. Rain that is turning the hillsides to green! A strong healthy husband who can replace our roof. A group of women friends who packed 84 Operation Christmas Shoebox boxes to share with children around the world. Snow on Alta Peak. A friend […]
Picking up Walnuts
One of the great benefits of living in the Central Valley of California is the availability of food. (Is that why we are so dang fat in Tulare County??) Almost everyone has a friend with an orange tree or grove, a walnut tree or grove, fruit trees, access to packing houses. . . makes me […]
Learning New Skills, Part Two
Yesterday I showed you the tile mosaic work of my friend The Tiling Genius here in Three Rivers. I learned from him two ways to make stepping stones. I previously stumbled onto each of these methods on my own, but he had all the right materials, tools and techniques. It makes a difference, and I expect to […]
Learning New Skills
A handful of years ago I went on a tear making mosaic stepping stones. By “on a tear”, I mean ninja crazy! (In spite of not knowing what that means, it continues to crop up in my vocabulary.) I made about 12 dozen stepping stones, tile-mosaic’ed (no idea if that is actually a verb […]
Fall in Mineral King
We spent our last weekend of the season in Mineral King over Columbus Day weekend. The weather was beautiful – about time, after all the smoke this summer! It really seemed weird to shutter things up for the winter when we were running around in shorts and sandals, but it certainly is better than closing […]
Random Topic Round-up
Here’s a catch-all, catch-up post for you on random topics. My blog post ideas are triggered by pictures, and these were just languishing in the file without purpose. This painting was very difficult. I worked on it from real life, and from several different photos taken at different times of year. This is the final iteration […]
Kaweah Postal Disaster!
UPDATE: The auction will go live at 12:02 on September 29 – I think this means just after noon. Thank you for your patience with my inexperience and ignorance! As a Central California artist representing the good things of Tulare County, I have painted and drawn the little Kaweah Post Office many times. It is […]
Lazy List of Hardworking Artists
Today I am sharing a list with you of some truly gifted and amazing artists. (Lists are a lazy way to post to a blog.) Because the internet has shrunk our world, I have had the pleasure of corresponding with and becoming virtual friends with these four women. Diana Moses Botkin (no relation – we looked […]
Random Thoughts
Random is a good word for unrelated items piling up in my head. Thank you for visiting my other blog this week. I hope you poked around and discovered things that interested and entertained you a bit while over there. Most of my sunflowers escaped the ravages of the voracious deer in the neighborhood. The […]