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Category Archives: Colorado
Greenleaf Ranch
Looking south, the broadside of barns, bright sun flushes the knolls and ruts, the Sunday afternoon slips by. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1001938
Brush Creek – Greenleaf Ranch
Looking southeast, the barns, the fences, the hills and mountains beyond glow in the mid morning sun. The horses are out to pasture. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1001942
Brush Creek Fence
Looking north in the late afternoon sun the fence posts march into the autumn pasture bleached by summer sun now departed. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1001944
Gambel Oak – Quercus gambelii
The oaks are starting to change colors here in the Colorado montane. The colors will be in the yellow/brown range this year due to the conditions that prevailed around here last summer. The leaves will fall by November and re-emerge next May, one of life’s comforting certainties. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1001229
Wild Rose – Rosa woodsii
This variety of rose grows in the woods where we live. They bloom in July in the montane and when they’ve ripend they produce a crimson hip, plump and shiney. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1000675
Hillside
This is the view out our western window…sorta. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1000674
Three Trees
Just three trees in the late afternoon sun, washed and warmed by the horizontal light. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/999551
Wild Apples
There’s and old, old apple tree at the Comanche Venable trailhead in Colorado. No one tends it now but the browsing deer. It’s grown scraggely and wide as the years pass. In spring its whitepink blooms billow in the montane sun. By September the fruit finally ripens to a sour, wormy greenred, hard and plump, abundantContinue reading “Wild Apples”
Sometimes the Trees Will Dance
I walk in this montane woods. When the wind moves so do the trees, interacting with one another as the gusts direct, sorta choreographed, I think. https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/995559
