Sunday Morning

Sunrise in the quiet of an early Sunday morning

and a little lizard on the stucco wall, holding on with its long toes

after the textured stucco was applied to the outer walls of my house, I found I did not like the way it looked and wished I had specified "smooth"...and now I like it because I like that the lizards can walk on the walls...

Desert to the East

Yesterday afternoon the desert was calling me, and I went to an area about an hour and a half east of Joshua Tree and walked around on the NE edge of Joshua Tree National Park.  It was a clear dry day with just a faint wind, about 80 degrees F in mid-afternoon...warm in the sun, cool in the shade...

the sand out here is much paler, less brown, than where I live

autumn bushes and a water shaped rock face...apparently this area was under an ocean back along the way...

shadows lengthening

Still Standing

STILL STANDING         oil on canvas       8" x 8"

Sky Just Before Sunrise Today

Paradise...a few days ago a big wind blew away the summer nights, now we are waking up to cool October mornings and warm sunny days...

(for Lisa in on the Dorset coast)

Joshua Tree Drawings

Morning Color

O, the desert sky in the morning!

SEPTEMBER MORNING SKY 2        oil on canvas        8" x 10"

Morning Sky Painting

SEPTEMBER MORNING SKY         oil on canvas       8" x 10"