
Earth Quail Cactus Sky, $225 USD, pastel, 24×18″, 2021,
copyrighted with all rights reserved by Jean Krueger
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1176117
It’s a simple life in the desert.

It’s a simple life in the desert.

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.

Keep your eye on the fly. Meow.

Clean kitty, lick,lick, lick. Meow.

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.
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Buck has a kitty condo (a carpeted climbing perch) and he spends much of his idle time (of which he has an abundance) napping thereon. Meow.

Getta bug. Meow.

Daily Cat 200….a dubious milestone for a series begun in December of 2018. Take a look at my Dailypaintworks gallery, these have their own CATagory.
Meow.

Ted caught this fish in Lake Pleasant, a lake in northern Maricopa County in Arizona. It’s about 14.5″ long and is painted close to full scale.

Buck the Cat. Meow.

Nap. Meow

A hot day, a steep climb, another place in the world I’d never seen before. Wonderful.

This scene is from the end of a fishing trip. No fish but nice winter sunset.

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 or flesh. When backlit by the setting sun, their branches look like bright torches of white gold.

Cactus Tree Mountain Sky

Buck the Cat eyes the prey. Meow.

Pouncing. Meow.

Pinnacles on the Hailstorm Trail at Echo Canyon in Chiricahua National Monument in southeast Arizona, USA.

Oh, Garlic! What a gift thou art!
Hear, I shall tell you why.
You heal the heart, relieve the fart
Repel possums and flys.
Buck the Cat. Meow.