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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“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””
“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
Moon Over Red Mountain
November 2022 My friends and I were driving from Silverton to Durango. It was dark, and it was snowing. There was a full moon, so naturally we howled. (Actually, we were singing, but who could tell the difference?) The moonlight illuminated the falling snow. We decided it would be cool if we drove through theContinue reading “Moon Over Red Mountain”
Windom Peak
July 2022 Windom Peak is the highest summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains, located approximately 28 miles north of Durango, Colorado. I did not know the name of Windom Peak growing up in Durango; I saw it whenever we drove to Grand Junction, and that was enough for me. I neverContinue reading “Windom Peak”
San Juan National Forest
October 2022 On Highway 160 between Cortez and Durango, the desert scrub gradually gives way to mountain greenery. The speed limit is 70 miles per hour, but when I was child, it seemed like it took forever. When I was sixteen and newly licensed, my dad and I made that drive with me at theContinue reading “San Juan National Forest”
Objects in a Bag 