These clouds fill me with a sense of awe.
“Watching for Rain”
Today I make my yearly trek from the Lone Star state into the Land of Enchantment. For those who follow this blog, we will spend the next month in the painted desert. I am so glad you are coming along.
“Father Son Day Hike”
This is my son Noah hiking with his pop in a box canyon in Ghost Ranch, NM. It is a cool oasis of green in the harsh desert that surrounds it, and a perfect place to pass a hot afternoon (as long as you watch for storms).
Beautiful Storm
I painted this with an underpainting that I washed in with denatured alcohol. For some reason the drips were hard to paint over in places, but it seemed to work ok with the rain in the finished painting.
Puddles on the Horizon
I’ve loved puddles since I was a little girl, the light reflects so beautifully off these.
Abiquiu to Ruidoso
Anyone who has traveled with children in the car knows what it is like to spend a month in a car one day. Often, road trip time feels slow – sometimes I am in the right frame of mind to savor and enjoy time passing. This was one of those days. We drove from Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico, down to Ruidoso. The children slept, the rain fell, and we savored the drive – we watched the landscape unfold and open up around us, and we accepted the gift that was simply being present. It would take a month to paint the drive from this day, perhaps I will try.
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