Queen's Horse Painting

QUEEN'S HORSE       oil on canvas    40" x 30"

Blue Horizon Painting, the Calendar, and a Mockingbird

BLUE HORIZON        oil on paper      8" x 10"

...today is the last day of the year according to the calendar we are using...for me the new year begins after the shortest darkest day, at solstice, a Real Event...

I wonder if we would feel differently about Christmas if it came at the beginning of the year 

rather than the end...

Mockingbird, who looks so slim in the summer, showed up this morning with feathers fluffed against the cold air...

December Composition

DECEMBER COMPOSITION     oil on canvas      44" x 60"

"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears."

   — Rudyard Kipling, who was born this day in India in 1865

(from Quotes of the Day)

Roadrunner Roost Yesterday 4pm

a series in my ongoing attempts to catch this unique creature in the act..

it looks around from side to side...

takes a look up at its target...

turns and looks intently...

crouches ready to spring...

and goes so fast my shutter is too slow...

and the image not clear at all...will continue this effort, maybe get out the video camera...

today wind and rain and mist...

click to see all 7 days

Winter Blackbird Painting and Storm on Saturn

WINTER BLACKBIRD        oil on canvas       12" x 12"

December 24, 2010 photo of a giant storm system on Saturn by the NASA Cassini spacecraft which is orbiting that amazing planet...see Ciclops for details...this project is headed up by Carolyn Porco, who consistently posts what's happening out there...

Desert Seed Pods

Palo Verde

ChinaBerry

ChinaBerry with top branches

Mimosa

No Idea Painting and Colored Skies

now that we have passed the turning of the light, the day is already noticeably longer...

 

 north east Bullion Mountains lit by last night's setting sun

NO IDEA         oil on canvas         12" x 12"

a few minutes before sunrise this morning...

the wind is up, and the sky is brightly overcast