Mineral King Wildflowers: Common Names This is the title of my next book. “My next book” – What? do you think you are an author? Well, I make books, so maybe I am an author. My books are picture books, so maybe I am an artist who makes books. “Maybe”? Sigh. It is hard to talk about oneself and […]
Work That Doesn’t Feel Like Work
In my normally slow month of December, I finally had the chance to work on my upcoming book Mineral King Wildflowers: Common Names. It seems to be cooking along just fine, and then something goes wackadoodle with InDesign or the template ceases to do its templatish magic or it takes hours and hours to resize all […]
New Book Coming!
Friday’s post left you with a teaser. . . new book coming! Wildflowers of Mineral King: Common Names is in progress. This has been a 2 year process of gathering photos and names. I’ve struggled through many boring white flowers and a zillion yellow ones that all look alike. I’ve gone a little nutso over blue […]
Mineral King Wildflowers
Because I went coastal last week, I don’t have any new stories to tell about my crazy life in Mineral King. (not truly crazy, just me exaggerating. . .) Instead, here are 10 photos of Mineral King wildflowers for you to enjoy. Do you have a favorite? Do you know any of these by different […]
Paintbrush Gardening
Is it gardening when I am planting flowers with my paintbrush? Is it gardening when I am painting wildflowers? It doesn’t matter – sounds good in a blog post title and sort of works. This is one of the popular 6×18″ sized canvases, begun with a few spots and slashes of color. I showed you […]
May Flowers
April showers bring May flowers in some parts of the world; in Three Rivers, it is more this way: With April heat, May flowers are beat. That’s okay. I can paint my own flowers. But wait! What is all this? This is how it looks when there is a stack of new paintings ready to begin. […]
April Distractions in Three Rivers
I tried to oil paint last Friday but the greenery and wildflowers overcame my sense of duty. So, Trail Guy and I drove up North Fork Drive to the end. The road was longer, rougher, narrower than I remembered and all very worth the drive. After we got back home, I painted a little bit […]
Easel Time
Have you noticed that the word “easel” is pretty close to the word “easy”? It’s merely a word illusion. Nothing easy about being at an easel. This fact, combined with April as the most beautiful month in Three Rivers, has made it even less easy to plant my feet in front of the easel recently. […]
Trail Guy’s Favorite Mineral King Hike
Sometimes I have to be down the hill, feeding Samson, watering the yard, blogging, drawing, taking care of business, fulfilling promises. Meanwhile, Trail Guy the Retiree is in Mineral King, hiking and taking photos for me to put on my blog. His favorite place to go is White Chief. Mine too, unless it is the […]
Mineral King Wildflowers for Carol
Happy Birthday, Carol! These flowers are for you today.