This past month has passed like lightening. The weather has been a strong mix of winter and spring. We’ve had snow on March 3, 4, 9, 10,31 and April 5. Between we’ve had days near or in the high 60’s. Mother Nature has been yinging and yanging back and forth between the seasons.
In the last month since the last blog entry, we’ve taken down a show David was showing in at Fresno State University, ‘Body Electric’. We attended a talk about Ansel Adams at the Fresno Art Museum. I visited my kids. We helped my artist daughter, Michelle Capela, hang her new show at Provost & Pritchard in Visalia. We attended the 2nd Annual Amateur Aperture show in Oakhurst. This was a very talented group of people. Last Monday was a potluck for the persons participating in the upcoming Mariposa Agri-Nature Trails. We’ll be showing at the Silver Fox Winery.
Our 2 chicks are now one chick. A hawk got brave and outgoing Sally. Weazie was beside herself for several days, mournfully crying for her sister. She was the follower, the shy one until Sally disappeared. She is now very tame, wanting lots of attention and doesn’t mind being held. Below is a picture of David taking our older chicken’s picture and the chicks ‘helping’. The close up shows Sally looking at the back of the camera.
This past week we hiked the Striped Rock Preserve Easement of the Sierra Foothill Conservancy. There were large patches of moss with fruiting bodies everywhere. The bright red and yellow and rust kept catching my eyes. I saw several inspiring scenes to paint. The red bud was blooming along with a variety of lupine, popcorn flower, fiddle neck, Manzanita and various shrubs. (As I’m typing this the wind is howling as another storm approaches. Pine needles are flying past the window and pinecones are being flung from their branches. It’s a beautiful grey day.)
Striped Rock in the distance.
Sketching after my camera battery died.
We were invited another day this past week to join the Sierra Foothill Conservancy on a special outing to the Kennedy Table Top. That was such a magical place. The whole mountain top was in bloom with flowers. I gathered more painting material that day. We tried SO HARD not to step on flowers.
The ladies identifying flowers. The tent in the background is set up for lunch after the hike.
A vernal pool ….. and a photographer’s tripod leg.
