Three paintings After getting some input from a smart and honest artist friend, I tackled this one again. It is much better, but it needs to hang around for a bit before I decide if it is good enough to sign. This painting of the Honeymoon Cabin has been with me for three years, and […]
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 […]
Farewell to Spring in Three Rivers
Maybe. Maybe not. However, I am heading to Texas tomorrow*, and when I return, I think the green in Three Rivers will be finished, or close to it. My dear friend the Texan and I planned this visit to coincide with the blooming of the Texas bluebonnets (a variety of lupine). I think someone miscalculated, […]
Spring in Three Rivers
In the middle of a day of painting, I took a short walk. Last year at this time, we were preparing for a wedding. I spent a fair amount of time preparing the yard where the wedding was to take place. This year I revisited the site, and the cows remembered me. When they saw […]
Watching Deer or Oil Painting?
It’s kind of hard to focus on painting when this is outside the door. Apparently, I’m not the only creature to appreciate spring in Three Rivers. This little herd is just one body short of a baseball team. It looks as if this is a deer park, rather than my lawn. Actually, it isn’t even […]
Painting Spring in Spring
We had a beautiful spring day before spring arrived. Instead of being out enjoying spring, I was inside painting a picture of spring. First, I varnished four newly dried paintings. It was definitely an open-door sort of day. The view was distracting, but I needed to be focused on the scene on the easel. This […]
The Way I Remember It
There is a place near me here in Tulare County that is fantastical for spring-time hiking, particularly in a wet year. The views, green, trees, flowing water, and wildflowers are utter perfection, unless you try to get a good photo. Then, all the beautiful things that you remember end up in different pictures. What’s an […]
Spring is Short so Enjoy it Now!
Spring is exceedingly short, a beautiful season that could be cut off by a quick few days of heat. Last week in one of my regular posts of watching paint go slowly onto a canvas, I ended the post with a photo of my yard (“the yard”, “our yard”, the place outside of my home, […]
February Flowers in Three Rivers
February in Three Rivers is the beginning of springtime. Look at all the daffodils (and narcissus? Or are they all narcissus?) in my yard in these photos taken on February 14. I love February. Wish it was longer.