This is a small, quick painting requested by my sister. It’s located in central Wisconsin, USA.
Category Archives: Travelog
wild Burros of Maricopa County
When we go fishing at Lake Pleasant in Maricopa County, AZ, we sometimes see some of the burros that live in the surrounding hills and gorges. They’re skinny little creatures but they go and do what they like, a condition of being feral. Desert Life suits them.
Lake Pleasant Backwater, AZ
Another fishing trip, another inspiration for a painting. The Arizona mid-afternoon sun saturates all colors. They sparkle and glow. I do love Arizona.
Up at Lake Pleasant, AZ
The white bass are still biting at Lake Pleasant in Maricopa County, AZ. This is a view of the embankment at the lake shore. Ted’s doing the fishing, I take pictures, pic up fistfuls of discarded fishing line and look for lost Rolex’s on the beach.
By the Salt River, Arizona
This scene is from the end of a fishing trip. No fish but nice winter sunset.
Field of Chollas
Chollas are botanically in the subfamily of Opuntioideae, the same family which includes cactus’s with broad, flat leaves. The leaves of the Cholla are round-ish and really spiny. They quickly become stuck to any object that comes close to it. Their spines hurt and aren’t easy to remove once impaled in either fabric, fur orContinue reading “Field of Chollas”
Below the Ridge, Valley of the Sun
We hiked to this overlook, then had to turn back to reach the car before dark.
White Tank Regional Park
The sky catches fire in Arizona.
White Tank Park
Cactus Tree Mountain Sky
Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
Pinnacles on the Hailstorm Trail at Echo Canyon in Chiricahua National Monument in southeast Arizona, USA.
