100th Anniversary!
No Silly, that doesn’t mean me! The place I visited is celebrating it’s 100th Anniversary of being a National Park. Do you know it? Here is another hint… This is beargrass and grows up high in alpine regions. Do you know now? Okay, so these are the ones who really like the beargrass, and I [...]
Doors Opening and Closing
As you may have guessed, I have been away for a bit. It seems doors are opening and closing all the time now (maybe it is because I am looking for them). When I travel, I find my work becomes very charged with new ideas and new explorations. This time is not different. The challenge [...]
A Gate Is Like A Door
When I was in France, earlier this year, I took a photograph of a perfectly French gate at Giverny. I came home and gave it my own twist! I think a gate is a door of sorts. Do you? Are any gates/doors opening or closing for you this summer?
Versailles Door
So this is my version of a door we passed by when Elizabeth and I went to Chateau de Versailles just outside of Paris. I have thought long and hard about this post and have decided I am not going to bore you with our photographs and my “architectural importance” dialogue. Instead, I am going [...]
Back to Paris
I thought I would show you this little watercolor, first. Last time I talked about how the color was a cross over point for me and you can see how I have taken some liberties with the color in this one. When I walked through this door the feeling was like walking on a cloud. [...]
Paris Doors Packed Together
Today we will go back to Paris to visit a place filled with historical reminders of famous people. As some of you know my daughter, Elizabeth, is a writer and professor of English literature. She had a major interest in going to Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise to find the graves of Oscar Wilde and Proust. [...]
Research Update
I have been traveling a little bit for my research and the home city of this bridge has played an important part of the work I am doing. Do you know this bridge? Do you know the city? I traveled here with my daughter and one night we took a boat ride down this river [...]