Upwards and Onwards

I've been spending time spray painting murals on local fences during the pandemic.  This was my first time using spray paint as a medium.  It was fun.

The red face painting done by Sparrow, a local artist, started it all.  As soon as I saw that I began painting Grandma Agnes, above, using the photo on the cover of her book as my model.

I like drawing horses so these appeared soon after Grandma.

The dragonfly is a special request by Ivan.  Evidently this valley is known for them. A work in progress - bugs are hard for me.

Below, these horses are on Eric's fence.  After he saw the other horses, he wanted some too.

Eric asked me to carve something out of a piece of wood he'd had sitting in his yard. I carved a mermaid with a deformed tail, because the wood was deformed.

Eric tied the mermaid at the top of his stairs, as if she was the prow of his ship.

Lori, my wonderful book editor, wearing a lapis lazuli necklace I made from some of the beads I got at the Tucson Gem Show.  

The swimming hole, actually a river.  It's in books listing it as one of the best nude beaches in Oregon. Very popular in the summer.

One day, I was driving into town and these guys (below) were having a big gobble-off in the middle of the road.  Their girlfriends looked totally bored.  I drove by very slowly and they took off in huff.

I also met Tina at the RTR.  She stopped by to visit one weekend.

Once a week we have a Scrabble game.  These guys are good.  I only won my first game a couple of days ago,

Leeanna at home in her beautiful garden.

BAM!!!!  A very loud noise made us all go looking for where it had come from.  Below, a hoarder's home on wheels.  All the stuff he had inside moved forward and crushed him into the window (breaking his nose) when he hit and knocked over a large tree.  It took the firemen over an hour to get him out, then they had to helicopter him to a hospital.  So much excitement in the neighborhood.

I went with Zapata to Redding, California to look at some property and this is the shot I got of Mt. Shasta through the window as we passed.  It had a lot less snow than last year, I think.