March 2022 This is Geoff Kersey’s watercolor lesson #12. Jack and I go to Cricket Hollow Park when the weather is warm just to watch Kings River amble by. In the spring, the snow melt speeds up the ambling, which makes me wonder: Do rivers like to be rushed? If I’m in the mood toContinue reading “Kings River”
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Cambria Pine
March 2022 Note to self: Well-meaning suggestions from kind-hearted people can be a real drag; I mean, it’s so tiring having to fend them off.
“Wooden Ships”
Watercolor Lesson #3 ~ Charles Evans “Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy, Easy, you know the way it’s supposed to be, Silver people on the shoreline, let us be, Talkin’ ’bout very free and easy… Go, take your sister then, by the hand, Lead her away from this foreign land, Far away,Continue reading ““Wooden Ships””
Desert Clouds
November 2022 Note to self: Everyone has a plan for your life.
“Misty Mountains”
Watercolor Lesson #3 ~ Lesley Linley “So I’m packing my bags for the Misty Mountains, where the spirits go now, Over the hills where the spirits fly.” Led Zepelin
Ocean Clouds
November 2022 Note to self: I think it’s better to be tossed in your own sea – however turbulent – than secured to someone else’s anchor, no matter how safe.
Purple Bear
Being Purple. It’s not easy being purple in a red and blue world. In a black and white world, it’s not easy being a shade of grey. There are maybes in a world of yes or no; there are sometimes in a world of always or never. And can be harder to find than or,Continue reading “Purple Bear”
Happy Birthday, December!
To Everyone Born in December May you always have a fire by which to sit and think. “I sit by the fire and think of all that I have seen, Of meadow-flower and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that were there, With morning mist and silver sunContinue reading “Happy Birthday, December!”
Santa Rosa Creek
October 2022 Claudia, June Bear, and I left Cambria and headed for Paso Robles via the Santa Rosa Creek road. Claudia was driving, which left me free to watch Santa Rosa Creek peek in and out of the trees. I was also free to get quite turned around in where I was on the planet.Continue reading “Santa Rosa Creek”
Black Cat
Rocks or Sand Some people think you should take care of the big things first and the small things last. It’s like filling a jar with rocks first and then sand. Everything fits. If you put the sand in first, there isn’t enough room for all of the rocks. But what do the rocks andContinue reading “Black Cat”
Objects in a Bag 