Ferocactus wislizeni is a native of Southern Arizona and Mexico. They grow about knee high and are 12 to 16 or so inches across. They’re quite spiny. The thorns are pinkish and curved somewhat like a fish hook.
Buck the Cat sits for his portrait. Meow.
Buck the Cat eyes the prey. Meow.
Pouncing. Meow.
Catching flies. Meow.
Pinnacles on the Hailstorm Trail at Echo Canyon in Chiricahua National Monument in southeast Arizona, USA.
Dusk light.
Bear right
To car park.
Almost dark.
Oh, Garlic! What a gift thou art!
Hear, I shall tell you why.
You heal the heart, relieve the fart
Repel possums and flys.
The genus Allium is a fabulous species. It includes the garlics, notably the Elephant Garlic as celebrated by this painting. When in bloom they are showy beyond words, when roasted with olive oil and on sour dough, well, you’d think you’d died and gone to heaven. Enjoy!
In praise of the lowly but lovely onion.
This is an end-of-day scene looking east. We’d been fishing down in the Salt River, fish weren’t biting, the sun’s sinking and it’s getting cold on the desert. Nothing left to do but walk back to the car and start the hour’s drive home.
This part of the Salt River runs through Tonto National Forest in central Arizona. When the monsoons come, the rocky bed in the foreground is raging with water which will flow west where the Verde River will join it.
Wild horses, mustangs, roam freely through this park in large herds.
A scene from Southeast Arizona, not far from the Mexican border.
Nature and realism as abstraction..get it?
Chiricahua National Monument in southern Arizona is other-worldly. Have you been there? I think it rivals, even surpasses, Utah’s Arches National Park. Chiricahua feels intimate yet has a scale of grandeur. I had never heard of this place before we visited it over the New Year holiday. We hiked isolated trails, took lots of pictures and quit at sunset. See America first, we have so many wonders to behold.
Nature and realism as abstraction…go figure.
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These paintings are of trout flies, designed and tied by Richard Lubrant, and offered by Orvis,https://www.orvis.com/p/fly-formerly-known-as-prince/02ct.
I received a commission to paint these and would like to paint your favorite or meaningful trout flies. Please contact me.
The original paints are 6×8″ on 300lb. watercolor paper. Images by Jean Krueger, copyrighted with all rights reserved.
It’s difficult to travel more than a few block in Sun City, Maricopa County, Arizona, before encountering a golf course. I don’t play and they’re closed to all but paying customers. They’ve remained a huge mystery to me for the more than 60 years that I’ve been a visitor to this specialized City. The golf paths wind through lush, shaded and watered landscapes that disappear in the far distance, forbidden to non-golfing mortals such as I so I’m very curious as to what lies beyond. Nonetheless, the courses are lovely and I don’t begrudge those who are to allowed to amble the greens from dawn to dusk. After dark the greens belong to coyotes, the rabbits they hunt and the birds who roost til morning. This is the order such and the way it shall be.
Here’s the end of the day at the end of the Summer in Upstate New York in a canoe where Ted paddles and I try to stay warm… and take photos to take my mind off how cold I am. Yeah, I’d stay warmer if I paddled, too, but I’m not a paddler. I’m a painter.
Buck the Cat contemplates his navel…of course, cats have navels.
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