Such a beautiful place, Red Rocks outside Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Mountain Landscape, San Diego County
A hot summer morning in the mountains near Escondido.
Red Rocks Painting
Though you can’t actually see the red rocks in this piece, maybe I shouldn’t have called it that. This is from the Red Rocks national conservation area, though, which is a very beautiful place.
Santa Barbara Sunset
Sunset in the hills over Santa Barbara, California.
Nevada Desert Landscape
I got turned around when headed to Red Rocks outside Las Vegas. Here’s the desert from where I wound up when I got lost. No red rocks here, but the blue mountains were very pretty.
Afternoon Light, Santa Barbara
Golden late afternoon light in Santa Barbara, California, with the mountains rising in the distance.
Santa Barbara Landscape is for sale.
Rolling Farmland in Santa Barbara
The rolling hills above Santa Barbara, dotted with California oaks and livestock. We saw horses, cattle- including longhorns- ostrich or emu (can’t tell which)… and then eventually we saw the inside of a winery tasting room.
We went to Fess Parker Winery. Fess Parker was the actor who played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone on TV back in the day.
At the winery, you could buy miniature coon skin hats to put on wine bottles. Very tempting, but we chose to spend our money on wine instead.
Santa Barbara Mountains
Trees In Fog
The hills step off into whiteness
-Sylvia Plath, Sheep in Fog
Sylvia Plath was a dreary lady, but her poems are full of stunning imagery, and this is the line that came to mind while heading up into the cloud bound mountains above Santa Barbara.
Hot Morning at Burnt Mountain
Original landscape painting of the mountains north of San Diego, California.
A bright, hot morning as we drove north through the mountains outside Escondido, California. The summer sky was thick looking with haze. We pulled over for me to do the pastel sketch I based this painting on.