COMPLETED PAINTING!

Just did a couple little 'final touches' to this watercolor of cliffs in Capitol Reef National Park.  It's fairly long and it's a trapezoid shape: 30" x 10" x 8".  It's going above our dining table where the ceiling of the trailer is sloped.  Can't wait to get it affixed to the wall!  It feels so good to be painting again, and there's so much subject matter everywhere we go! 

ROAD RASH: ZION NATIONAL PARK

Does this disgust you?  Yes, it's TP -- in the bushes at a pull-out along the road through Zion National Park.  We spotted this, along with a number of other piles of discarded wipe, when hiking in the Park last weekend. 
LADIES: when ya gotta go, ya gotta go.  But PLEASE carry a small zip bag (and hand sanitizer) along with your TP or tissues and take your wipe home with you.  It takes years for it to disintegrate in this arid climate, and it's just not fun for anyone to stumble on to anywhere!  Gents, this goes for you too -- leave only footprints!  Anything else is 'crappy', no pun intended.

GOOD MORNING FROM HURRICANE UTAH!

We witnessed this beautiful scene of the sun and clouds on the mountain cliffs in the distance, as see from our 'office' window in our trailer.  The sunsplashed cliffs are far to the northwest; they also have a dusting of snow.  At the bottom you can see the near cliffs, which are a lovely golden-red. 
How sweet it is to have a new beautiful view every time we move to a new location! 

We're loving Hurricane; it's a small town with all the services we need and the weather is pretty darn nice.  We did have a cold front move through, brought day-time highs down to the 60s and lows in the 40s.  But the sun is shining here and a huge high front is settling in with much warmer temperatures in the forecast.

ENJOYING THE MEMORY

Found time to finish the painting of cloud-shrouded mountains, meandering stream, and blooming fireweed along the road between Lake Louise and Jasper in the Canadian Rockies.  It was such a lovely scene and I'm so lucky to be able to paint it and mount it on the wall in our trailer!

Another PIP (Painting in Progress)

When we were in the Canadian Rockies this summer, driving from Banff to Jasper, the mountains were shrouded in clouds and just incredible! I finally started a painting of a scene where we stopped for the view. The pictures are my PIP (painting in progress) and the reference photo. I'll post more when as the painting progresses.

LAST MORNING VISUAL

The morning we left Bluff Utah to head to Hurricane UT we were treated to the Hunter's Moon setting over the cliffs to the west, just at daybreak. What a delightful lasting memory of our visit to the Bluff area!

MOVIN' ON . . .

Arrived in Hurricane Utah late Sunday Oct. 20th. I already miss the SE Utah Canyon Country and am sorry to be gone from there. However, we need to spend a little time in a 'center of commerce' and get some things done, so here we are! We're in a big RV park with lots of old people. Luckily we have a spot on the edge of the park with a view of the hills out our back window & no trailers within 'pass the grey poupon' distance! 

 

Really good news is there's a fine local grocery 1/2 block away and they have wonderful fresh produce -- something we've sorely missed in the tiny little towns where we've been the past 5-6 weeks. We had a huge salad for lunch and dinner tonight is tofu with snow peas, bok choy, crimini mushrooms, sweet red pepper, fresh ginger, and bean sprouts.  I cannot wait to throw that together!

 

I finished my painting of the cliffs in Capitol Reef National Park the other day and will take photos and post soon; I'm about to start on a smaller piece from the Canadian Rockies, south of Jasper — feeling wonderful to be back at my painting after a very long dry spell.