Learned Much in September—9 Things

This month’s list is long, many thoughts, few photos. Settle in, and enjoy! Food 1.Intermittent fasting for three months did not work to remove me from the category of pre-diabetes. I am discouraged, disappointed, disgusted. Dis, dis, dis. Maybe it is time to accept the reality. I hear over and over that “EVERYONE” is prediabetic, […]

Driving Through the Valley After my Show

Golly tamale, that Central California Artist must have run out of things to write. Nope. Rarely does that happen. I drove to Tulare to retrieve my art. It was very serendipitous to pass many vineyards at a time when I need photos of them for the current pencil commission. I like using my own photos, […]

Ten Things Learned in August (Plus What I Did on my “Vacation”)

Because we don’t have drawing lessons in July or August, sometimes my students say, “Have a nice vacation!” (One sings to me, “See you, in September. . .”) “Vacation”? Fall down laughing. This is what I did workwise in July and August: 2. The library’s card catalog stopped working online after the last “maintenance” session. […]

INDEPENDENCE!

P.S. I highly recommend reading the Declaration of Independence today.

More Spring in Three Rivers—a Month Late

I wrote this post at the end of March and forgot to publish it. Will any of these photos translate into paintings? Maybe. No decisions yet. Just grabbing beauty when it is available. The Lake isn’t actually in Three Rivers. The upper end is close; the dam end is closer to Lemon Cove. The lake […]

Thoughts on Casseroles

Today’s post has one token photo, and it has nothing to do with my normal topics. It is just me, expressing myself. Next week I’ll get back to business. Trail Guy is the dinner cook around here—BBQ meat, giant salad. Simple, plain, really good. I fix dinner about once a week, normally just something I […]

More photos, thoughts about Three Rivers vacation rentals

These are photos that could have been used in yesterday’s posts about what I learned in April. But since I am not working very much and Mineral King isn’t open yet, I saved some of them for today. This white flower is a brodiaea that comes near the end of spring. Each one of those […]

Seven, no, Eight Things Learned in April

1. Here is a fun list of 100 ways to live better: Less Wrong (Warning: needless occasional vulgar language and some controversial suggestions with an occasional gem.) 2. The “platform” where my blog lives did a tech update again. This time it actually improved things. Now when you are a subscriber, you can see photos […]

Fading Spring in Three Rivers

The old rhyme “April showers bring May flowers” isn’t exactly true in Three Rivers. Here it is more that April showers prolong March flowers. The turkeys are very busy right now. Too bad we don’t know where they lay their eggs; on the other hand, if you found a turkey egg, it might have a […]