tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152686612024-03-14T00:52:59.440-07:00Mobile Artist MusingsBarbara Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369749376349540671noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15268661.post-84791937929690200192021-04-24T16:01:00.000-07:002021-04-24T16:01:21.530-07:00Winter in the Southwest<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;">The fires started a seven month journey. I ended up spending the winter in the Southwest.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OWubj_qNcGo/YILgUPYwJGI/AAAAAAAAFPo/_HuJY7Z5sIghAYu2f804eDhGkhDr7bGTACLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_2918.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OWubj_qNcGo/YILgUPYwJGI/AAAAAAAAFPo/_HuJY7Z5sIghAYu2f804eDhGkhDr7bGTACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2918.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Above, a rainstorm while driving south in New Mexico to Portal where I spent a week camping in my van at the one community open to visitors, that I was able to find, during the pandemic. I had to leave Oregon, the fires were on the way, so it seemed like a good time to check out new places. Two days after I left, the fire came over the mountain and everyone was evacuated.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZDc_kMgeMI/YICnfgOhAOI/AAAAAAAAFKU/V_ppMlil6U8bMloFP5Blq3R5uzQfETN2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3101.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZDc_kMgeMI/YICnfgOhAOI/AAAAAAAAFKU/V_ppMlil6U8bMloFP5Blq3R5uzQfETN2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3101.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U64iE5A_4lA/YICm0Ll8VTI/AAAAAAAAFKM/UqVacX-J-IQPEV9IMXaaNgB2JMW6YHiVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3071.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U64iE5A_4lA/YICm0Ll8VTI/AAAAAAAAFKM/UqVacX-J-IQPEV9IMXaaNgB2JMW6YHiVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3071.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qXpRGdLBNew/YICj4ydVvTI/AAAAAAAAFJc/5vQ5891mYBsuFchHgreLxc-91mV0nDf4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3076.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qXpRGdLBNew/YICj4ydVvTI/AAAAAAAAFJc/5vQ5891mYBsuFchHgreLxc-91mV0nDf4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3076.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I spent a couple of weeks with a friend in Los Cruces, New Mexico then I ended up heading to Tucson, where I knew people. The first place I found, that appealed to my new desire to live comfortably with air conditioning and heating, was where I ended up living for 5 months, with Karen, who owned the house. Because of the pandemic I couldn't do much of anything except drive around and learn my way around Tucson.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Karen's place</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-blD4CagNuFg/YIMpv_EPxqI/AAAAAAAAFP4/goL6Sqkv4QkEagOXBidD3HcTubxueN-hACLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3058.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-blD4CagNuFg/YIMpv_EPxqI/AAAAAAAAFP4/goL6Sqkv4QkEagOXBidD3HcTubxueN-hACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3058.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PMZdTzhMdh4/YICixGDD7mI/AAAAAAAAFI8/6rdK_EMOQS8jg_kddNpSZuVTuJwhrZ67wCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_2971.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PMZdTzhMdh4/YICixGDD7mI/AAAAAAAAFI8/6rdK_EMOQS8jg_kddNpSZuVTuJwhrZ67wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2971.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lJsWW9-IPe4/YICoIFGWv3I/AAAAAAAAFKc/7cKpDWJWka8vHDD0z8zPDJgWI3Po8zXCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3056.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lJsWW9-IPe4/YICoIFGWv3I/AAAAAAAAFKc/7cKpDWJWka8vHDD0z8zPDJgWI3Po8zXCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3056.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">WRTR (Women's Rubber Tramp Rondeveaux) at Quartzite, AZ in January. I only went for a weekend, below are a few women I met. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BMHB4JdRP1Y/YIDl8eX_WzI/AAAAAAAAFPc/nmbwMkGc74AqE7a20X-qUKmZw3fFQ2-vwCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3107.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BMHB4JdRP1Y/YIDl8eX_WzI/AAAAAAAAFPc/nmbwMkGc74AqE7a20X-qUKmZw3fFQ2-vwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3107.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My friend Mark is a stone mason but he makes these for fun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2qlQKe3hxgA/YICo_bBmeYI/AAAAAAAAFKk/9ZrXirDzFcICKyKhYZSJTvu1LVKwpuQRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_2995.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2qlQKe3hxgA/YICo_bBmeYI/AAAAAAAAFKk/9ZrXirDzFcICKyKhYZSJTvu1LVKwpuQRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2995.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Patagonia, AZ free library book box. The libraries were closed, so books were hard to find. This little free book source was heaven sent.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s3IoT2_Z1_k/YICqDEKCpRI/AAAAAAAAFK8/KcmtQXSAgO41ZfqtFxq4bWASr78xNJlQACLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_2999.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s3IoT2_Z1_k/YICqDEKCpRI/AAAAAAAAFK8/KcmtQXSAgO41ZfqtFxq4bWASr78xNJlQACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2999.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kaya at Patagonia Lake. When Kaya learned I was living near Patagonia she decided to pick me up and go exploring.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zYmiLOnDec/YICxVJTgsuI/AAAAAAAAFMc/UjqFWOnm7vw3PFQJ_O_Sp4y6JeM7-IBigCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3145.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zYmiLOnDec/YICxVJTgsuI/AAAAAAAAFMc/UjqFWOnm7vw3PFQJ_O_Sp4y6JeM7-IBigCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3145.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rcuosXdMgeg/YINDqoOx-5I/AAAAAAAAFQA/1nY3q3StUc8Le1dcBC25ERvYFgXuWnxhgCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3139.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rcuosXdMgeg/YINDqoOx-5I/AAAAAAAAFQA/1nY3q3StUc8Le1dcBC25ERvYFgXuWnxhgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3139.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-toTXnOR1K7g/YIRW__arXdI/AAAAAAAAFQY/5qJ9KSi_4_UDep5_NlVs-RxFYaxX5dTSACLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3165.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-toTXnOR1K7g/YIRW__arXdI/AAAAAAAAFQY/5qJ9KSi_4_UDep5_NlVs-RxFYaxX5dTSACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3165.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> When I decided to go camping around Arizona, I began getting my van ready. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tIN7Mcxg4kE/YICqXGasYkI/AAAAAAAAFLE/6oi9OtkawVoJ0duXxtIyDfFrY2IUbOtPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3179.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tIN7Mcxg4kE/YICqXGasYkI/AAAAAAAAFLE/6oi9OtkawVoJ0duXxtIyDfFrY2IUbOtPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3179.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ix5ZqHAkHHE/YICqw52Fi9I/AAAAAAAAFLM/ZMVNcxA7uZAHgQXACH_ZTy7n5X5P9ncmwCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3180.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ix5ZqHAkHHE/YICqw52Fi9I/AAAAAAAAFLM/ZMVNcxA7uZAHgQXACH_ZTy7n5X5P9ncmwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3180.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I met several people at Fortuna Lake, outside of Yuma. Wonderful birds here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JxWpKvmAUqk/YIC7EBoilKI/AAAAAAAAFNU/vsH4avD513YsvYLWEBGeNJH_9OspnaMYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3210.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JxWpKvmAUqk/YIC7EBoilKI/AAAAAAAAFNU/vsH4avD513YsvYLWEBGeNJH_9OspnaMYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3210.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4KK7OZaCwk/YICrTA8IxJI/AAAAAAAAFLU/JWEgr_BYsqg0aKoRJ-PNpBe7LkEfOYMUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3193.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4KK7OZaCwk/YICrTA8IxJI/AAAAAAAAFLU/JWEgr_BYsqg0aKoRJ-PNpBe7LkEfOYMUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3193.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kq6P8T_862c/YICsVKnBcGI/AAAAAAAAFLk/h1iZLmotjCoVnbpe9qyH1Erueab6IFC3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3201.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kq6P8T_862c/YICsVKnBcGI/AAAAAAAAFLk/h1iZLmotjCoVnbpe9qyH1Erueab6IFC3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3201.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I picked up a free tent and it became my toilet room. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_JRbcBXmmoc/YICs0B0c3LI/AAAAAAAAFLs/L_NcPIzN-_oGLkvqZ8jeq3lS6v6OzPn5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s5152/IMG_3220.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_JRbcBXmmoc/YICs0B0c3LI/AAAAAAAAFLs/L_NcPIzN-_oGLkvqZ8jeq3lS6v6OzPn5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3220.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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That's how I ended up coming home to Oregon. Same room in the same house. I had been boondocking, camping free, on BLM land for two months. I loved it at first but eventually I was craving electricity and being clean. I'm good for a week at a time without plumbing and power but.... At least I know that if I HAD to live in my vehicle, I could do it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Barbara Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369749376349540671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15268661.post-44656509214688177062020-06-23T02:08:00.001-07:002021-11-05T18:40:40.622-07:00Upwards and Onwards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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.</div>
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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.</div>
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The dragonfly is a special request by Ivan. Evidently this valley is known for them. A work in progress - bugs are hard for me.</div>
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Below, these horses are on Eric's fence. After he saw the other horses, he wanted some too.</div>
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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. <br />
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Lori, my wonderful book editor, wearing a lapis lazuli necklace I made from some of the beads I got at the Tucson Gem Show. </div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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Once a week we have a Scrabble game. These guys are good. I only won my first game a couple of days ago,</div>
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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.</div>
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<br />Barbara Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369749376349540671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15268661.post-44223501668942798542020-02-06T20:23:00.002-08:002020-02-07T11:19:22.545-08:00Healing<br />
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I've quit carving giant trees for now and have gone back to making shrines. Actually, I had already made the shrine but found an old chair in the garden and a piece of plywood in a ditch which I made into an altar, then glued semi-precious stones, old coins from around the world and amulets from my travels all over it.</div>
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More shrines in the works.</div>
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Thought I was finished with my paintings of children and animals, but I started these two.</div>
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My Bathroom Madonna, standing in what used to be a window. On either side are reproductions of paintings done by Zapata's uncle who used to paint these for the tourist bureau in Mexico.</div>
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All summer long there are half naked men running around here. I finally asked if I could photograph them. Ivan is constantly moving so it was luck I got these two pictures of his "tattoos" hehehe.</div>
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Jerry was covered in tattoos.</div>
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Five weeks before I left for Arizona I saw Bob Wells from the RTR, Rubber Tramp Rondaveau, on Youtube. I had instant wanderlust and fixed up my van with a bed, kitchen, bathroom, etc. I signed up to be a speaker on how to travel around the world with bartering and doing work exchanges and got a great response the three times I spoke. Below, Sueann and Bob talking to an early morning group.</div>
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Tina, who I made friends with and will see again.</div>
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Jewels, from Homer, Alaska, whose father is a nuclear physicist, retired in Tucson. She is holding Little Buddy.</div>
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Next to the Parker Library is a blue water tank, blue on blue.</div>
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Desert sunrise. Chem-trails that look like bombs were dropped.</div>
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When I left the Quartzite/Parker area, after two weeks of camping out, I spent a well appreciated night in Scottsdale at my friend Kaya's place. A nice shower, a good meal and a good friend - heaven.</div>
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In Tucson I had no plans where to stay so I just showed up at Terra Sante, a community that practices new and old building techniques, that I have stayed at several times over the years. They allow me to make my art on their property.</div>
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Steam room and sound chamber built to look like a tortoise.</div>
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For some reason the only thing I felt like photographing at the Gem Show in Tucson was the dinosaurs below. I bought a lot of beads and cool stuff. Another form of heaven.</div>
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Inside the tortoise sound chamber at night when Bruce was practicing making sounds that changed the colors in the kaleidoscope above his head.</div>
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My curious neighbor where I was camping.</div>
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Driving home, I stopped in Weed to get gas and shot this picture of Mt. Shasta while I waited. All in all, a very good trip.</div>
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I've been in an internal rage ever since my sister, Janice, told me she had ovarian cancer - this was during the presidential elections in 2016. At the time, I was thinking of leaving the country but I promised her I would stay here in case she needed me. I told very few people, it was as if I said anything it would make it happen. She wanted no health advice and was adamant that all her loved ones not talk to her on that subject. It has been horrible. She passed away at noon on June 3 and I will miss her forever. Above, she is with her good friend Peggy last year.</div>
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I have been moving around trying to find a new place to live and start over. Luckily, I found a place in Cave Junction in Southern Oregon that I think will work out nicely. Happy people here. Below is the Klamath River, where I started out.</div>
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Eloin is a community I found outside of Ashland, Oregon. After Janice passed I spent a month here cleaning myself out on vegan food, detoxing and rethinking my life. I made up my mind to move to Oregon - look for a place to rent, but first I stayed up on this mountain, totally off grid, to see if I could do it. Outhouses, solar showers and no internet. There was some electricity because of solar panels and a generator but mostly well placed windows provided light.</div>
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Most of the work at Elion revolved around the four horses and two donkeys - shoveling their manure and using it in the gardens. Here are Joey and Missy begging for banana skins.</div>
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I began carving earth spirits on tree stumps.</div>
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Val, below, kept asking me to carve him a snake and one day I found a piece of wood that actually looked like a snake and brought it back. Below, Beth is cleaning it up while Val watches.</div>
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Below, is an experiment. I had been reading a book by Ruth Montgomery and she mentioned how she had learned to dissipate clouds in the sky. Cool. I began practicing and within half an hour had dissolved 4 clouds. The next day I went with Annie to town and while we waited for someone in the parking lot decided to dissolve a cloud together. I took these photos every 30 or 40 seconds. Look at the cloud in the middle, to the left of the light pole</div>
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I've been to several events since I moved here last month. Lots of parties and lots of interesting people to meet. This week is a community full moon drumming.</div>
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Below is my landlord, Zapata, getting a back massage. I got one, too - it was a feast for the elders. I'm an elder, aren't I.</div>
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I spent an afternoon photographing the local Farmers Market which is big here.</div>
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Zapata built this house and all the rooms are huge. They are also filled with huge plants and lots of colorful rugs, blankets and art from around the world. Below is part of the living room.</div>
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Above the living room is another apartment where Little, a 6'2" tall man lives. Three people live in the house but we are all spread out and can't hear each other. I can't hear them anyway.</div>
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The upstairs bathroom and laundry room. The painting on the far wall is almost done. I call it my bathroom Madonna. It used to be a window.</div>
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The second floor on the front of the house is 40 feet wide and 10 feet deep - my bedroom and office.</div>
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My roommates. Giant plants. My office - can't see the desk.</div>
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The deck in front of my door. Great place to sit.</div>
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Two acres of fruit trees: apples, pears, peaches, almonds. A huge grape arbor. </div>
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The day I moved in Zapata started tearing this room off the kitchen apart to become our new pantry. After all the construction, I taped, mudded and painted and he touched everything up (he's very picky). It looks great and is so handy.</div>
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Happy Camp. A nine foot tall fir carved into a forestry firewoman based on Veronica Rasmussen, who had spent 23 years working for the Forestry Service. Over the years Veronica has been a heli-rappeller, engine operator, brush disposal crew member, and a patrol captain. I've decided to spend one hour a day as a volunteer carving sculpture for the town of Happy Camp, weather permitting. </div>
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On March 7th I took off for a two week work exchange on Maui, where my good friends Fran and Patti now live. They had just had a lot of work done on their house and needed help putting everything back together again. I've done this for them before and my offering to photograph the house and put the photos up on a blog for them sealed the deal. I got an all expense paid, including airfare, room and board, trip with gourmet organic meals and a quiet beautiful ambiance included. It worked - getting away always helps me to heal. Things that made me angry before I just don't care about now. I've got other things to do.</div>
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Below is the shrine I made for Fran and Patti. They collect my art so I like to make things for them. The hula ashtray was a crushed lava tourist piece from the 50's - the crow and the wren are their nicknames for each other. May they have many happy days in Maui.</div>
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Below, some of my pictures of the property. Patti's art hut is behind the fish pond.</div>
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Below is Attila. Being city girls, Fran and Patti originally called him Attila the Hen until a worker informed them it was a rooster. He showed up with another rooster and after a big hurricane only a bedraggled Attila survived. They fed him and brought him back and then one day Adonis showed up. Pigs and chickens run wild all over the island. The property is fenced because of the pigs. The chickens just hop over the fence. Fran jokes about living in a gated community all by themselves.</div>
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Fran and Patti are artists. The piece below is Fran's. Fran and I originally met at a Cleveland Bead Society meeting 20 years ago and have been friends ever since. Before she moved to California I helped her organize her house for the move and have photographed her houses ever since.</div>
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The front of the house from the gate. To the right is Mike's house. The houses are connected by covered decks.</div>
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I managed to lose the piece I made above so Fran let me make the two pieces below. I cemented the top one to the back of an OM pin and intend to make a nice necklace with it.</div>
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Patti, below, made the sculpture of her mother. I think they look just like each other. She had it cast into bronze.</div>
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I carved this statue of Mike's mother as a girl for him over 10 years ago. He brought it to Maui.</div>
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St. Patrick's day at the Dunes Country Club for dinner. Only photo I'm in because the waitress offered to take our picture.</div>
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I did it. I finally uploaded my Barter e-book to Kindle. I have managed to manifest an extremely rich and exciting life traveling around the world and I was able to afford it by bartering for places to stay and airfare. I use barter as a lifestyle. This book is filled with many links to barter places and lots of stories I've collected of my own and other people's successful barters. Here are the Contents:</div>
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who have mastered the art of trading up. One man started with one
red paperclip and ended up with a house. A teenager started with a
broken telephone, which he repaired, and eventually he ended up with
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I spent most of the month of May glued to my computer watching Kilauea pour lava all over the Puna area of Hawaii. That's exactly where I camped out for three weeks after the last time the volcano blew. I don't know for sure but where I stayed has probably been wiped out now. Below is the link to the blog I put up about my stay. It was so beautiful.</div>
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Basically, I've been divesting myself of possessions. I started out with 60 tubs and have given most of it away and I'm now down to 10 tubs. Anyone who comes to my house gets a tub of stuff. Thrift stores got all the clothing. Lisa got ten tubs of art stuff for kids. I gave all my tubs of fabric to a group of women at a rehab place who are learning to quilt. A local assemblage artist got two boxes of interesting junk - everything from antlers to cool looking metal things. I donated boxes of books to the Metapysical Library in Ashland and gave a tub of props to the theater.</div>
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I've totally stopped buying anything at thrift stores. I want to be free of stuff. What I have left is my art: goddess carvings, hand made books.and paintings. I have to find a way to sell it all. Any suggestions of a good web site to sell art? What am I keeping? My tools, photos, and some of my books.</div>
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<br />Barbara Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369749376349540671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15268661.post-2742774420832440002018-03-24T09:26:00.001-07:002018-06-14T09:52:23.899-07:00Another Year in Yreka<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I haven't posted in over a year. It has been a very weird year. I went crazy on Facebook for a while, then managed to pull myself away. So, to get away from the horror of politics, I've been staying creative. I didn't take very many photos this year. I did make a fair amount of art. Below is a lake reflecting clouds at a local park.<br />
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My garden goddess, below. I'm hoping to get her started this spring and hook her up to a watering system. I bought seeds for greens to be grown in her skirt, small tomatoes in her boobs (two stainless steel bowls not shown), etc.<br />
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Below, my rendition of the design for the next play that J.J., the director, wants for the set. Will start painting it in a week or so. The play is called "Ravenscroft", a mystery comedy set in the library of an English country house in 1905.</div>
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Below, twenty, count them, twenty paintings that I finally finished after five years. I did the series to help raise people's frequency. I want people to laugh and feel good when they see these. I found all the images from the internet then redid them my way. I have worked professionally as a painter for the movies in Los Angeles and as a set painter for Summer Stock in Pennsylvania, but I never really had a painting lesson to learn how to do light and shadows. I have to learn by doing, so this series was how I taught myself. I want to start another series of paintings but I have to think about what to do now. Something different.</div>
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A few months ago a friend, Mark, gave me a 3 foot tall black walnut log. I'm the kind of woman men give logs to. Haha. I finally started carving it and I'm still stuck in the same series as the paintings because it turned out to be a child hugging a slobbery dog. It will look good when I'm finished.<br />
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David kept asking me to put up on Youtube the documentary that I shot in Happy Camp in 2008. I spent two months in Happy Camp interviewing interesting people, gold miners, jade hunters, well, you'll see. I returned to Santa Cruz and joined the public access tv station and when I finished editing it all together, I gave them a copy. They began playing it on their public access station and I went away for a year. When I came back a year later I turned on the tv and there it was, playing. Below, is my very first attempt at making a documentary, "A Town Called Happy Camp".</div>
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Some of my wild kitties. Getting a new front porch soon. David is widening it a bit so we can have stairs that go down to the back yard.</div>
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<br />Barbara Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369749376349540671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15268661.post-91137460864825428842017-01-23T08:33:00.001-08:002017-01-23T08:42:58.023-08:00Tucson Visit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I stepped outside in the drizzle at David's property and a group of wild turkeys ran past. Can you see them, above? Below, David and I drove to Tucson together. I had a lot of errands to do and people to meet so in the end my intent to photograph David meeting all my friends and seeing new places kind of fell through the cracks. On our first morning we went for a hike in my old neighborhood with my friend Valery and her two dogs. I originally met Valery while hiking the road and one cold morning encountered her walking her dogs while wearing what looked like a long mink coat. I teased her - something about how you know you're in a good neighborhood when people walk their dogs wearing a mink coat, and she assured me it was fake fur and we ended up hiking together after that. She had recently retired from Goldman Sachs in New York where she had been a Vice President. Very smart. I love meeting intelligent women. Anyway, we all hiked along the arroyo where I'd cemented 13 of my concrete goddess faces the previous year and found 4 of them. I was so sneaky with them I couldn't remember where I stuck them.<br />
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David and I drove out to TerraSante, a community about 20 miles out in the desert. I've lived there a couple of times for months at a time, because Bruce, the owner, was willing to barter with me for my art or videos. Across the street is where Victoria has her moringa ranch. I made a series of videos for Victoria (see link below). I used to suffer from serious dehydration (enough to be hospitalized) and her filter has helped me immensely. Victoria and David in front of cactus with boobs.</div>
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David and I went to the Historical Museum in Tucson - very nice. As we were leaving I saw this display. In the 1930's a family accidentally found a large stash of lead artifacts, below, which have Latin words on them. A big mystery! Did the Romans come to Tucson?</div>
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We stayed in my beautiful room at Dan's, but I forgot to take any photos. David helped me pack up the truck with the 7 tubs of stuff I'd left behind. I was hoping to see my piggies, but they never showed up. Dan told me I was welcome back any time. I would love to go next week during the Gem Show but I already have so much stuff from last year's Gem Show, so..... Got to meet up with my friend Mark and my other friend Mark, re-registered my truck, stocked up on vitamins from Trader Joes and stuff like that before we headed back home. Below, the sky on the way back. David was driving when I suddenly leaned over and asked him what my odometer said. It was at 269,999. Yahoo. That truck is the best running truck/vehicle I've ever owned. So, of course, I had to photograph the odometer as it turned over to 270,000 miles. David said he's now a believer - he thought my timing was psychic. It was. I didn't know what the miles were, I just had a sudden feeling to look at them.</div>
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Fran and Patti saying goodbye. They are the best hostesses you've ever met, including gourmet meals. They recently bought a house on Maui with another friend. They showed us the photos, it's quite amazing. Fran's husband, who passed away years ago, owned a large law firm in Cleveland. Her two daughters are all grown up and doing very well in San Francisco and New York and now she's ready for new horizons.</div>
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Below, a little video I made for Ralph Starritt, an artist I'm working with. I'm working on a huge dragon (30 feet long) and am presently cutting out many dragon scales, then we will weld/pop rivet everything together. I'm also going to carve a dead redwood tree in front of the Siskiyou Historical Museum. It's a memorial to loggers and a grant from a logging company is paying for it and a large metal sculpture that Ralph is making.</div>
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I've started to mortar my goddess faces around town. They are supposed to look like ancient ruins oozing out of the ground, but I'm afraid someone might trip over one of them so I've begun cementing them to walls. Below is Ralph Starritt, a metal sculptor who has covered this whole area, including just about every little town, with his large metal sculptures. I'm making a video for him and in return he's letting me learn how to use his plasma cutter and welders. This is the most fun I've had in a long, long time. Yahoo!</div>
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Ralph's studio, below, and below that a couple of his pieces in town.</div>
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Below, my favorite new tool, the plasma cutter. It quickly cuts through steel. </div>
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My first attempt at cutting - sort of wiggly but I'll get better. Goddess heads I'm making out of shovels.</div>
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The deer are smart. It's hunting season now and many days I see them hanging out in the back yard. They move into town because they know there is no shooting in town. Ha ha.</div>
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This is the head I made in a clay class I took when I first moved to Yreka.</div>
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Above and below are paintings I did for my series on kids and animals. The one below was accepted in an exhibition about artist's books at the Siskiyou County Museum in Dunsmuir. The chihuahua book was also in the show.</div>
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FIRE!!! I took this photo at the end of my street. For two weeks we breathed smoke as the countryside and people's houses burned.</div>
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David helped me move all my stuff out of my storage unit in Reno, but it turned out that his alternator had died and we had to stop and charge his battery every half hour until we got to Susanville. There we stopped at an auto parts store and David put a new alternator in his truck - it has run perfectly ever since and I now know how to do it too.</div>
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Below, the head of a dragon - to learn how to cut and weld I'm going to focus on building this dragon during the month of December. So far we have the head and three feet. I think I'll start with the wings.</div>
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My walking friend Berta took me up to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Hilt (Tashi?). They were having a retreat so we couldn't go into the Temple, but we visited this shrine near the entrance of their property. It was like being in Nepal.</div>
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Then Berta took me to the local health food store for lunch - to celebrate my birthday!</div>
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Thank you Berta for a really nice day!!!</div>
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It's official. I'm a snowbird. I'm presently in Yreka where I'm renting a cute little house from my friend David. It had been unloved and empty for years. Ceiling tiles falling down, cats had used the place as their personal litter box. After much work David restored the house, alone, in his spare time. I talked with Dan, my landlord in Tucson, and he says I got out just in time as the heat has been over 110 recently. </div>
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David found this new looking Craftsman style solid wood furniture on Craigslist. </div>
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I took it as a sign from God when I realized that the YMCA was across the street . I took the photo. below, from the front yard. I signed up my first week. They have several yoga classes every week and I go there every day to get my internet fix. </div>
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I was originally going to stay with my sister, Janice, in Hermosa Beach, but my friend Fran asked me to stay with her for a few days and repaint the table and chairs I'd painted for her years ago. The half that was not in the sun was okay, the other half had to be sanded down and repainted. The first photo is before and below is after (but before Fran painted a protective something over it.)</div>
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Fran's garden is full of her and Patti's sculptures wherever you look. </div>
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My favorite thing about living in the desert outside Tucson is the continuous wildlife strolling by my glass door. I got to know the javelina family that walked by my door several times a week and many of the birds.</div>
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<b> The writing on my Barter book is done and it's being edited!</b></div>
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At this point it's called <i><b><span style="color: blue;">The Secrets of </span></b></i><b><span style="color: blue;"><i>Bartering:</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><i> How to Live Well on Very Little Money</i></b></span></div>
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I still have to design a cover, then format and upload everything to sell as an E-Book on Amazon.com. Dan is editing it for me and he's very good at picking out things that need rewording. It's going to read as smooth as butter. I hope to have it uploaded within the next two weeks. Below is the contents page.</div>
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I've literally lived and traveled all over the world using barter for everything: rent, doctors, dentists, mechanics, computer repair, airline tickets, and meals. I've done work exchanges for beautiful places to live in countries like Australia, Mexico, India, and Ireland. It's a great way to meet people, make friends, and learn. I have walked the walk, now I'm going to talk the talk and spread the knowledge. I think of it as a path to economic freedom.</div>
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Below, at the Gem Show, I got to meet Brian and Yolanda Busse, from the cable tv show <i style="font-weight: bold;">Prospectors. </i>I haven't had a tv for over a year but this used to be one of my favorite shows.</div>
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The second time I went to the show I went with Cristina, who I lived with three years ago in Tucson. She's sitting in a chair carved out of a giant crystal.</div>
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Brian at the hobby store off of Speedway, showing me how to fly my drone. I now know how to get it up but I keep crashing it into trees. To thank him I went on Saturday to shoot the radio controlled car races they hold at their store (in the parking lot that's now a race track). I still need to edit and upload it to Youtube.</div>
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Below, Mark inspecting the terrible masonry job I did on attaching my 13 concrete goddesses to large stones along the arroyo behind Dan and his neighbor's houses.</div>
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I decided to clean out the storage room attached outside my studio. It had been filled with cardboard boxes and when the door was closed the pack rats moved in. To pack rats, computer and printer boxes are furnished condos. Over the years rattlesnakes moved in, too. I slowly raked things out of the room to keep the dust down and shoveled it into large garbage cans. As I slowly pulled things out a largish, pissed-off rattlesnake, too drowsy from hibernation to attack me, thank Gaia, appeared. Can you see him, below? Took three days to persuade the snake to leave. We kept removing it and it kept coming back. Dan mentioned having it killed so I just hosed it down which made it swirl in high speed circles against the wall. After that I left him alone and he went away and hasn't come back. Not a fun way to wake up but better wet than dead. I want him alive to eat the local pack rats which have a habit of eating wires under car hoods.</div>
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I met Valery while on my morning walks. She has a beautiful house up the road and one morning I caught her walking her two dogs while wearing what looked like an ankle length mink coat. She only weighs around 100 lbs. and it was a really cold morning. She claimed it's a fake fur but I kept teasing her. We hung out and she invited me to go with her to visit her house outside Bisbee where we dropped things off then headed into town for lunch. Valery, originally from Minnesota, started out as an actress and playwright in New York City, then at 35 went to work for Goldman, Sachs where she eventually became a vice president. I saw her lift a heavy chair over the edge of her truck, carry it on her shoulder into her garage where she opened the door to the house and carried it inside. She's smart and surprisingly strong for her size.</div>
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My wonderful writing group, left to right: Tori, Joyce, Ellen, Jean, and Susan. They have the most interesting stories of any group I've ever been with. It was their motivation and support that inspired me to finish my book. Thanks!!!</div>
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I've finally found an use for all the goddess faces I cast in mortar. My goal was to find a place I could leave them so that they looked (eventually) like ancient relics oozing out of the ground. Wasn't happy with any place I saw until I started hiking behind Dan's property. I'm having so much fun in Dan's back yard. There is an arroyo that weaves it's way behind all the properties here and while hiking along it I realized it was perfect. There are enough big rocks laying around for me to mortar the faces to. I've gotten five in so far and will put 13 of the girls in all together. If it rains enough to flood that should help them look like they belong.</div>
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I thought they would stand out and be too easily seen but when I went back to photograph them it took me a while to find them. Yahoo. Below is where the creek goes under our road. I walked through this drain plus there are two more, so it's pretty big. I've learned that monsoon season is July and August and the arroyo fills up.<br />
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I'm starting with the critters. I call this one Miss Piggy, but really she's a javelina. There is a small herd that walks by my door almost every day. One day I left my door open while I was singing, then I stepped outside and scared Miss Piggy, who let out a huge noise and leapt backwards, as did I. When I looked outside, there she was staring at me (below). Evidently, she had been laying against my wall listening to me sing. She and a friend spent the afternoon lounging outside until the rest of the herd showed up. Once I knew she was there we just let each other be and I could come and go. Below are some of the photos I've taken since my first day here. They're my favorite photography subject at the moment.<br />
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I didn't see Miss Piggy's friend at first because he/she totally looked like the rocks he/she is sitting next to below. Being so close to Miss Piggy, I noticed a very strong smell. Evidently they have musk glands that enhance their odor. Usually when I see them their noses are to the ground like little vacuum cleaners.</div>
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This is one of my best manifestations. Months ago I wrote my intention of where I next wanted to live. For my living conditions I wrote <b>"I have a large, sunny, beautiful space with my own bathroom, heating/cooling, internet, and a large area to work in."</b> I think I've done it. Below is a shot from the top of my street, Lucky Street. Just west of Tucson, it's so easy to drive into town, I love it. It's the Sonoran desert and cacti abound in every shape.</div>
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My room, below, built of 18" wide adobe bricks, with log beams holding up the roof. The room is large, very sunny, with lots of space to make art, inside and out, and comes with a bathroom. The adobe makes the room totally soundproof. I've never yet heard Dan, my landlord, come or go with his car, about 15 feet from the room.</div>
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Below, working on my latest painting in the kid/pet series. I bought up lots of books at two library sales, one in Hermosa Beach, CA and the other in Mesa, AZ, so I have a good stock of reading material.<br />
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I spent a whole $60 on furniture and below, right, was the best deal for $30, a perfect little kitchen hutch. With my hotplate and toaster, I'm good to go. The heater easily keeps the place warm on cold nights. </div>
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I've been collecting interesting looking pieces like the candle holders that make up this pillar. I'm making a shrine for the top of this one, inside the box. The pieces are finally coming together, and surfing the local thrift stores is teaching me how to get around in Tucson.</div>
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Below is Dan, my landlord, a retired English professor who taught poetry at the University of Arizona for 17 years. He only looks serious like this when I point the camera at him. It's his writing studio I've invaded for the winter.</div>
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I bought a ukulele when I was visiting Oregon last fall, so was happy to find a ukulele meet-up group in Tucson. Yahoo! Below are Srin and Paul, very enthusiastic players. I also met Peggy (not pictured) during a meeting and she invited me over to play the ukulele with her. Basically, she gave me a free lesson and we played easy children's songs that used mostly F, C and G7 chords. Painful on the fingers, but she introduced me to tiny little bandages that really help a lot. It turned out that Peggy only lives a couple of miles away, amazing, as I usually only meet people who live at least 20 miles away. While we were playing she mentioned that she and her deceased husband had lived in Australia for a while. I had a feeling that she had been there the same time I was living in Australia so I asked her what year and sure enough they first went there in 1974. While her husband had taught at the University in Perth, my ex-husband and I lived in New South Wales where he was head of the Sculpture Department at the Riverina College (it's now New South Wales University). I was the college photographer (1974 to 1976). All of a sudden I'm meeting ex-academic people. A karmic loop?<br />
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I went to two Meet-up Christmas parties - one for vegetarians and this one, below, for psychics. This picture was posted online (someone stood in the doorway and yelled "smile!"- click). In January I'm joining a hiking group, a Rumba class, and a writer's group. If all this doesn't keep me busy I don't know what will.</div>
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And below, a picture I took after Christmas dinner at Deany's house. Dan has been telling me about his friend Deany since I moved here so I was pleased to be invited to dinner. But, here's the strange part. Deany's friend Candy, on the left, is from Wellington, Ohio, about 20 miles from where I grew up, and Deany lived in Elyria, Ohio, (where I grew up) and her daughter was born in the same hospital I was born in. Deany is a psychotherapist and travels all over the world working for the American military. </div>
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The day after Christmas I drove out to TerraSante, the community I've stayed at a couple of times over the years. Also stopped to see Victoria, below, with whom I made some videos and am making more in the next few months. She gave me a tour to show me all the updates, but only the plants in the greenhouses are still green, underneath their protective coverings. Couldn't resist taking pictures of the nests, this one inside the greenhouse where the bird used strips of plastic. Very clever.</div>
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I have to add my friend Fran's photos of her lovely works with clay. The first picture is Fran with her daughter Roseanne, who got her Phd in Business from Stanford and is doing very well.</div>
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The chicken, and lady on the left are Fran's and the two other ladies and the sphinx are Patti's. I love everything.</div>
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As you can see, I've moved back to Arizona for the winter. I guess I'm officially a Snowbird. Below are photos from the journey, going backwards in time. First is Kaya and Hal, who let me stop over for a couple of nights in Mesa. They are fantastic tour guides, taking me to three park areas to see how beautiful mesa is. Kaya also took me to a writer's group she's teaching, two thrift stores and the local library where I was able to stock up on books that should last me a month at least.<br />
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I forget the names of all the places, but they have unusual trees and lots of wild horses which we weren't able to see but everyone we met had. Evidently there are over 700 horses running around the desert and as they multiply they are rounded up. Oh yes, it's the Salt River.</div>
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Coming from California where everything is MUCH more expensive I had to photograph the sign below because cheap gas in Cal is $2.79. This sign is from Mesa but in Tucson the gas is even cheaper at $1.81 to $1.91. I filled my tank up and it cost me 14.73! That hasn't happened in a long time.</div>
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After driving 10 hours from Redwood Valley, I arrived in Hermosa Beach to visit my sister Janice.</div>
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I spent Thanksgiving week with Janice. One day we headed to Watts to check out the Towers built by Simon Rodia in the 1930's. Below are photos from the outing.</div>
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Once a month Janice volunteers at the Nature Center in Palos Verdes. This was a very educational trip for me. Not only did they have a very interesting herbalist give a talk and let us try eating her delicious concoctions, below, but the center's building was once where Nike missiles were assembled, next to a missile site operated from 1914 to 1982 for coastal defence. Now welded shut, there is six stories underground where missiles were stored, with elevators and launch sites. At one time 30,000 people worked here.</div>
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In the warm weather visiting the ocean is a must. We've been having perfect weather and taking advantage of it. I've infected Laura with going to yard sales and thrift stores to pick up interesting stuff for our photo shoots. We hit some really good yard sales in Fort Bragg yesterday. Below are the latest<a href="http://barbarayates-paintings.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> paintings</a> I've been working on for my child and animal series. I have 15 paintings in my storage unit and several more that need finishing. Enough to exhibit, I think.</div>
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These kitties, Piper (black and white) and Riley (gray), who formerly lived with their mom outside David's hotel in Happy Camp, have been relocated to the perfect home for kitties. They are having a lot of fun and are getting past their starving stage. They are very uplifting to watch and play with. </div>
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I was sitting on the steps to Laura's front door and just took a series of shots. It's so beautiful. My cabin is on the far left, and a shed.</div>
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We've turned Laura's greenhouse into our photo studio because the plastic diffuses the light perfectly. Laura's collection of yard sale stuff is evident. Mine are packed in the boxes. </div>
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In Happy Camp I used the 159 year old bare wood walls of David's hotel as the backdrop. The head is the latest goddess face I'm making and the glass stuff is from yard sales in Happy Camp. It needed color. <br />
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Above, the grasshopper I carved in Happy Camp, California the summer of 2008. Across from Parry's Market, nestled in the weeds, the grasshopper came about in a strange way. I'd made a barter for a place to stay while I made a documentary about the town of Happy Camp. In exchange for the use of a recreational vehicle, I offered to carve something for the couple who were friends of Dennis, an old guy I met while visiting Happy Camp with my friend David. I had a weird dream just before I woke up my first morning. In the dream I was carving a giant grasshopper. I asked Dennis if he knew of any insects the local Indian tribe had myths about. He told me to go to the museum and talk to them. When I asked the lady at the counter the insect question she went to the books sitting on shelves for sale and pulled one off. "Do you mean this?" she asked. She held up a book called<i> Valley of the Grasshoppers</i>.</div>
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Below is the old - 159 years old - hotel that David bought in Happy Camp, where I'm camping out for a few weeks. It's the perfect place to write and make art. The town is full of artists. During the BigFoot Jamboree this last (labor day) weekend I talked to people also waiting for the Parade to start and learned that back in the beginning the building was a brothel for the miners, that it was well known to have ghosts, that at one time it was the post office, as well as lots of interesting facts. I interviewed on a digital recorder Rosie who lives across the street now but used to live here. She's introducing me to Rick who lived here for 20 years and now lives another street over. The yard is a motherload for old coins I'm told. The yard is beautiful and lush green, because of it's age it is one of the best gardens.</div>
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Below, the view from my window in the back yard. The first day that I arrived I accidentally locked myself into my room. I realized that the only way out was through my window. I crawled out and scooted around on my butt (to spread the weight around) and turned to the street to see if anyone was around. There, to my amazement were two women who had just pulled up and were taking a ladder out of their truck. I called to them and they ran over with their ladder and helped me down. How lucky was that. They were two artists who made extra money painting over graffiti. My luck always amazes me. I got down, met two nice women, and learned not to accidentally lock my door.</div>
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I couldn't resist photographing this baby, and her proud mom inside Parry's Market.</div>
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I happened to be using the free wifi at the art center when a photo opportunity showed up in the form of Bigfoot, who couldn't see and had to be led to his sitting place by two firemen. It looked like he was being arrested.</div>
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During the parade one firetruck threw candy out the window, then below, another firetruck sprayed the kids with water. Much happiness ensued.</div>
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I'm using one of the upstairs bedrooms as my painting studio. </div>
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I spent a week with Janet in Southern Oregon, here she is below with Sherry (left) who has a certified organic farm and sells goat milk and vegetables, see below.</div>
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Below, the door to my room at Janet's. The smoke was really bad, then we had two days of drizzle.</div>
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Above, Before - Below, After rain. Exact same place.</div>
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I kind of fell in love with Cave Junction. The day after the drizzle the sky cleared up - this is looking south on the main street, below that looking north.</div>
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It even has a great bagel shop.</div>
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The local market is extraordinarily expensive - higher than California, but people can leave their dogs outside the door safely, below.</div>
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When I asked the guy inside the store about the bug, he told me it had to do with the two giant fly swatters hanging on the wall that were attached to the keys to the toilets. It's an inside joke.</div>
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Going up Janet's driveway - do you see the deer? Look at the next photo where I moved my truck up a little.</div>
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My latest experiment with the goddess faces I've been casting in cement. I painted one of them and attached it to a flagstone.</div>
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David and Laura - hard to get them to let me photograph them. This was while hiking to see a waterfall near the coast in Mendocino County. </div>
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One of the 5 paintings I've been working on about children and animals.</div>
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A still life photo of some things I bought at yard sales. A chain with old religious medals on it, tin type photos and a very old greeting card.</div>
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Above is my slightly pregnant Earthmother that I created in the desert outside of Tucson. The tires around it give you an idea of the size, around 50-60 feet long. I used a shovel and dug an 8 inch deep ditch around her, then raked the dirt outward. I couldn't see what she looked like until I persuaded a pilot at the local airport to fly me over to see the "naked lady" I'd carved in the desert. Ever since then I've wanted to create more Goddess land art. My resolution in Hawaii was to begin spreading my giant land art Goddess Gardens around the world. I think now is the perfect time for Goddess frequencies/energies to be reintroduced.</div>
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I intend to create giant land art wherever I go from now on. But, I have the same problem everywhere; how can I make something that can be seen from a satellite? This piece is just an exercise, a practice piece. First, I was going to dig the design out of the hill, then I decided to use old man's beard, a lichen that grows on oak trees in this area. In the first photo, the oaks behind the falls are covered in the lichen. Below that, is a close up of the long wind born "beard".</div>
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I decided to do the Celtic triple goddess symbol inside a circle because it fit right in to the area David gave me to work on (about 50 feet in diameter, near the road). I ended up using the lichen because of all the ground squirrel holes (the white dots inside the design). Then I had the bright idea of buying solar LED lights to outline at least part of the design. What happened was the next photo. Not what I expected, but I still like it. I need more lights. What I really want to do is create giant gardens that can be seen from satellites. I want them to be "painted" with the colors of the plants, vegetables and flowers and carry a powerful message through symbols and land drawings.</div>
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Below are the latest Goddess heads I've been creating. I sculpt them out of plasticine, make plaster molds off of them, then make concrete faces from the molds. These I'm collecting for a piece where they will appear around a city They are to give the effect of ancient art/sculptures oozing out of the ground. The whole will create a giant land art piece. Once I make a plaster mold I can rework the faces any way I want, over and over. I'm trying to make at least 10 different goddess faces/molds and I have four more to go.</div>
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I'm holding my first successful mold. Lots of failures until Eureka!</div>
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This is the inside of a mold. </div>
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Concrete Goddesses: I'm going to start coloring these to match the soil in specific places. The Goddesses below are meant for concrete in the city.</div>
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I swore I wasn't going to start another painting until I finished 6 others that are almost, but not quite, done. Instead I found a picture of a little girl with a manatee and it took me about an hour to sketch and paint the initial cartoon. Putting it up here will force me to work on it. (This kind of thinking explains why I will invite someone over to motivate myself to clean the house.)</div>
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Laura and I have decided to do still-lifes. Below are my first examples, using jewelry I've been making since Hawaii.</div>
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Up to now I've been moving around housesitting since I got back from Hawaii, but now I'm back in my old cabin. It hasn't been lived in for a while so I've been slowly cleaning it out. Finally have a clear deck where I can sit and read and take photos. I've turned the main room into my art studio and I've been having fun. Laura has a large garden and pets that need taking care of when she travels. When she's home we eat dinner together. She provides the organic vegetables, I cut it all up, she cooks, I wash the dishes. It works out perfect for both of us. Lately she's been bringing me green smoothies for breakfast - yum.</div>
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Below is my morning hike, sped up with stop action.</div>
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On the weekends David, Laura and I go on excursions. The ocean is a favorite, Clearlake in Lake County, little towns in the area, to redwood parks. Oceans, beaches, mountains, lakes, redwoods, rolling vineyards - it's very beautiful around here. Laura is an avid photographer so we constantly stop to take pictures and because of that I realize I have some to show too.</div>
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Okay, so I live in the middle of the woods and with two ponds on the property frogs are inevitable. This is the first time I've had one move into the toilet, literally. If you look you will see his nose poking out from under the rim. It's creepy and I can't rid of him. I think he likes when I flush, it's a fun game. I'm thinking of making a flush video so you can see how he usually manages to swim free - it's like going to a swim park for him. There are no bugs or flies so that could be part of the allure.</div>
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<br />Barbara Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369749376349540671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15268661.post-70068547447879960332015-03-07T15:47:00.000-08:002015-04-21T13:24:11.466-07:00Aloha HawaiiMy Manifestation: What I asked for was to be around happy, healthy, high IQ people. Interesting, creative people who are doing interesting things. A month later I ended up in Hawaii.<br />
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Here's a 16 second <a href="https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=A9DD2AA119ED18E3&id=A9DD2AA119ED18E3%21162&v=3" target="_blank">video</a> Diana shot of distant leaping whales out in the ocean According to Diana because we witnessed this it meant we were on the right paths in our lives. Cool. She shot it from her phone and it hesitates for a bit before the leap.</div>
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It all started when I read several articles and saw the photos of the lava flows in Hawaii. I e-mailed Adele, a woman I had met five years ago on Maui. She'd told me then that she lived about 12 miles from the lava flow, in Pahoa on the Big Island. She had given me her card and invited me to visit her. I was impressed with her spirit and friendliness. She told me she was off the grid (no electricity or internet) which bothered me before, but now I was craving someplace green and beautiful. I was craving healthy, happy people, Long story, short. I decided to go visit Adele and learn about how she eats and lives. She has no fat on her body. What is her secret?<br />
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Above, the Big Island as we came in for a landing. Below is Adele sitting on a lava "chair" and doing a yoga pose for me. Adele is a violinist, yoga teacher, masseuse, and enthusiastic foodist. By that I mean she loves to experiment with the amazing foods she grows on her jungle property. It is one mile from the ocean and she took me to see the path to the lava formations that formed a mermaid pond for us to soak in.</div>
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The beautiful drive to Adele's road.</div>
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Below is my tent, under big tarps that protect me from the rain and sun. At night I can hear the waves crashing on the lava beaches, the high pitched sound of the tiny local frogs - they sound like birds. Once, the snorting of the wild pigs that forage around the area. The sound of giant palm leaves and coconuts crashing to the ground. Tiny little red fire ants coming to visit - ouch! </div>
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Inside, my cot. There was a lot of room inside and Adele bought a large tub to keep my clothes dry and a three drawer plastic night stand to hold my light and keep my paper stuff dry. The humidity was intense. I was always a little wet from sweat or rain. It took me a week to get acclimated, sort of.</div>
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Below, Adele's house which she bought as a ruin and rebuilt. It was originally built with mahogany planks, which give it a rich interior.</div>
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A view of the inside of Adele's house, looking at the kitchen. The center room is the perfect room to do yoga classes and play music. All the wood is mahogany. Bob painted the floor brown but the rest of the wood is its natural color.</div>
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The house is open-air. Many of the windows are screens. Below, is the living room, opposite the kitchen.</div>
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Adele is completely off the grid. She has a solar system that provides electricity, gas for cooking, water comes from the rain in a catchment system that filters her drinking water. There is no heating or insulation because it's not needed. Below, a compost toilet in a small outdoor room where two walls are screens, keeping it smelling sweet at all times. </div>
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The kitchen and the shower, below, provide the only hot water, coming from a hot water heater attached to the water tank. When I arrived, they had been having a drought, not having rained for weeks. Of course, that changed right away. The shower was good, but there's no privacy except for the jungle.</div>
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Adele is the most creative food person I've ever met. Many of her dishes are based on the coconuts that grow in profusion on her property.</div>
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Below, the makings of a smoothie. A coconut, fresh from the tree, a star apple (brown), a rollinia, little bananas, a small hunk of ginger and the orange root is turmeric, which Adele grates into her sourkraut, smoothies, and vegetable stir-fries. I love the taste.</div>
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The finished smoothie - yum.</div>
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Adele grows her own everything. Below, a cacao pod, which is filled with 20 to 40 seeds. When the pod turns a deep red it is ready to harvest.</div>
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These are the seeds, which she then allows to ferment, then she rinses them off and dries them under the pilot light on her stove. After that, the skin can be peeled off and what you have left are the cocoa nibs, very tasty and healthy, ready to use in cooking.</div>
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A kidney bean chocolate cake - yum. Very rich and made without flour. No sugar, instead she put 10 drops of stevia into it.</div>
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Raw coconut and chocolate cookies that have been dried under her pilot light. Double yum.</div>
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Inside the fruit, very weird looking but sweet tasting and nice. All the fruits I saw had large black seeds in them. </div>
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Below is a singing group Adele took me to sing with in Hilo. She has a beautiful voice and is fun to sing with. She helped me with a song I wrote, singing it in a way I hadn't thought of.</div>
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Adele and a friend making music. Her violin gives me goosebumps, it's so beautiful.</div>
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Above: Diana who took me swimming in the Mermaid pools and who shot the whale leaping video. Diana reminds me of myself in that she's making her living selling jewelry at various craft fairs on the island. When I quit being a computer programmer I started selling my jewelry, using beads, Diana specializes in feathers, which I never got to photograph.</div>
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Below is the hala tree in front of my tent. Hawaiian's use the leaves to weave baskets and mats. I called it the penis tree. </div>
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It's just a root growing down, but when I sat outside it was standing there in front of me looking very phallic.</div>
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Below, the warm pond. A wonderful place for the locals to swim. The ocean is too dangerous. The waves crash against the sharp lava rocks and are scary. There is one local black sand beach used as a nudist beach, but I never got there.<br />
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Below, Pahoa, the closest town, reminds me of an old western town with wooden overhangs that cover the walkways.</div>
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Below, At the local mermaid pond. I thought this large lava formation looked like a giant roosting chicken. Much of this lava was formed by being tossed, as opposed to flowing, out of the volcano.</div>
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Adele, who spends lots of time in the sun, doesn't have a wrinkle or ounce of fat that I can see. Not bad for 56 years old. </div>
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We went to the Saturday market in Hilo. Unbelievable variety of the strangest foods I've ever seen.</div>
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Below, coconut sprouts from a Samoan coconut tree. These are considered the best coconuts, producing over a quart of water and lots of coconut meat each. Adele uses coconut oil in all her cooking, makes her own coconut milk and coconut cream which she uses in sauces and deserts.</div>
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I think these are called eggfruits. All the new fruits I tried were sweet, with large black seeds.</div>
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Adele, giving a ukulele lesson. I met the most interesting people. Sage, sitting on the floor is married to a German ship captain. They have two girls, 2 and 4 years old and they spend their lives traveling around the world on their super yacht, over 120 feet long. </div>
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Below, lava from the last flow that everyone was afraid would burn and smother the entire town. I took this shot from the Transfer Station. It amazed me how orderly the lava went by, slowly oozing downhill. One guy bulldozed a large berm behind his house to, hopefully, divert the lava. The flow stopped just at the bottom of the berm, They closed down the only food market (besides the incredibly expensive health store) because the flow was only a few hundred feet from it when it finally stopped. It's as if a whole bunch of people prayed for the lava to stop, and it did. Adele left for two months to make money in California creating Christmas decorations for businesses. She half expected that her house and property would be burnt down when she returned. But it had stopped.</div>
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The Bakery in Pahoa, below. The perfect hangout with Internet and good food. It's easy to meet someone new and make friends here. I hitchhiked into town one day in the rain. People are nice and I got two rides right away.</div>
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I lasted three weeks, then I literally began itching to get home. I returned itching from head to toe. The mosquitos and fire ants left their trail of bites and welts up my legs and down my neck, arms, and back. I lasted three weeks because I kept meeting lots of friendly, happy, interesting people with interesting lives. Three weeks was long enough for me to make up my mind on a lot of things. I returned knowing what it is I want to manifest next. Big changes.</div>
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The most beautiful sights, besides the mountains, to be seen in Reno, are the sunrises and sunsets. Below: are some of the necklaces in my bead collection. I started collecting when I traveled around the world, over 40 years ago. I keep some of them stored in the big box with lots of drawers. below. </div>
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Antique glass beads, semi-precious stones, old charms and amulets, hand-carved pieces. </div>
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My latest in a series of paintings about children and animals. I've decided to not start any more until I finish this and five others I've gotten almost done.</div>
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A shrine I made using charms, amulets and meaningful things I got out of an old shrine I'd made years ago but had disintegrated. Renewal.</div>
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This are my latest sculptures, in plastiscine, an oil based clay. I'm learning how to cast plaster. I want to eventually make a lot of concrete faces of goddesses that I intend to leave all over Reno on concrete sidewalks. They will each have a goddess symbol etched in the backs of them that will match the symbols I intend to make as land art around the area.</div>
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I was feeling bored and depressed and decided I just had to get away for a while. My friend David had invited me to visit months ago so I just called him up and asked if I could come on over. I really, really needed to see trees, greenery and colorful plants again. Reno is pretty much a dull brown all year round.</div>
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Below is the cabin I stayed in during my stay. It's the same cabin where I wrote the first draft to my first book back in 2006. I sure got to see green - it rained all but two days of the ten days I stayed. So, I didn't get to do very much mountain hiking, but I did get a lot of ideas for a new Murphy's Law list. My ex-roommate, Debbie Murphy, (now a chiropractor in Ojai) reckoned that if you made a list of ten things to send out in the world, that at least one of them would come back positive. I've sent out ten things in the past and had all ten come back good, so you never know.</div>
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The view of the mountains from Laura's house. Below are the berries in front of Laura's house.</div>
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A visitor in the sink in the cabin. Since I'm a Scorpio I just scooped him up in a cup and put him outside.</div>
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Above, a flower in David's garden. Below is Laura's greenhouse with a small shrine I made, and the remains of a garden goddess I carved for her, many years ago. The goddess had to be cut down because the bottom of the trunk finally rotted out.</div>
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A waterfall on David's property that totally filled up his almost empty pond. Now the ducks can come back.</div>
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Flowers at Laura's. In the fall the raccoons attacked her grape vines, which grow all along the front and roof of her house, causing her dog Janey to bark like mad, and keep Laura awake. They captured several of the raccoons and drove them many miles away and let them loose in a BLM forest on another mountain. Laura didn't mind the grapes so much, but the raccoons also ate 40 of her favorite goldfish, that she knew by name. Grapes and fish? Sounds like a perfect raccoon meal.</div>
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David's property - when I arrived it had been yellow. Now it is green. After ten days of healthy vegan meals, hours of conversation, and rain, I decided to come home and get to work on my Murphy's Law List.</div>
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<br />Barbara Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369749376349540671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15268661.post-68164582938816772202014-08-25T17:08:00.000-07:002014-08-26T06:35:48.770-07:00Summer in Reno<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Above, Snuggles, the mustang, is looking for a good home.</div>
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Below, a distant storm shot from my deck.<br />
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Yesterday, a rainbow from my deck.</div>
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Most mornings I go for a hike and I usually start on this dirt road (below) that runs behind all the houses on our side of the street (owned by the BLM.) Since I hardly ever take pictures around here any more (all the brown, brown, brown is uninspiring) I decided to photograph all my neighbors that I walk past.</div>
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I don't know any of their names, but they are all friendly and know me.<br />
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I have been having a lot of fun building a sanctuary and work studio on my deck. Before, the sun was too hot to tolerate. Bob, my landlord helped me by building an arch that we tied to the deck railing. With sheets and tarps I now have a cool, breezy, dry place to relax reading a book, or working on my projects. I love sitting here when it rains. All the water runs down to the other side of the deck, but I'm dry and so is my collection of tubs full of stuff I took out of storage last year.</div>
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I took a trip to visit friends in California and was profoundly astounded at how green and alive everything looked. These photos are from my friend David's place in the hills. It is really a beautiful place - 40 acres in the mountains. There is a good sized fruit orchard, grapes, berries and all the water comes from springs on the property. </div>
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A few years ago I went with David and Laura on an artist's tour in the town of Mendocino, on the coast. We met this woman who was making concrete sculptures and that made me want to try it. So, I made 5 heads (see one below) and put them all into hollow trees on David's property. Interesting note, above the head is a packrat's nest. They know good art! These heads are fun, fast and easy to make so I was thinking of making a bunch of them here and leaving them laying around Reno in unexpected places. We'll see.</div>
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Above, David holding a common green stone on his property - called cert (I think that's what he called it). Below is David hiking back to his house.</div>
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Home in Reno, I'm sitting in the backyard with housemate Debbie and below that is a picture of one of the bunnies that like to join us and eat grass. I can walk in and out of the house but they only run away if I walk towards them. Bob has created a beautiful green sanctuary here, but one step off the property and it's brown desert. We've had a lot of afternoon storms lately so everything is getting a slight greenish brown tinge.</div>
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<br />Barbara Yateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369749376349540671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15268661.post-65004756728039977612014-06-27T08:26:00.001-07:002014-06-30T13:06:18.724-07:00Reno and a Trip to Oregon<br />
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50% of the wild horses in the United States live in the Nevada deserts. When I learned about this about a month ago, and that many lived around the Reno area, I knew I finally had a cause I could work for. Most of the horses are rounded up on BLM land and end up in the Palomino Center for Wild Horse and Burro Adoption where many are eventually gentled and adopted. Some, like those above, are trained by inmates at the Prison in Carson City. Unfortunately, if the horses are rounded up on Nevada land (as opposed to BLM land), they are sold to slaughter houses for dog food.<br />
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Beautiful Chevy, above, is typical of the wild horses. With carrots and kindness you can make friends with just about any of the mustangs. Making videos of the horses in Nevada will be an ongoing project as long as I live here. Another ongoing project, below, are the two unfinished paintings in the child and animal series I've been working on since I lived in Tucson.</div>
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Last week I went with my friend David up to Oregon to help him work on an old house he'd bought. But first we went to visit Pyramid Lake on the Paiute Indian Reservation of the same name north of Reno. It was beautiful with spectacular formations of tufa. Seeing beautiful blue water was a shock to me as I've been surrounded by brown desert for the last 9 months. All the rock formations we found along the trip from Reno to Oregon are the result of ancient volcanic activity. Below, the pyramid in the lake (natural tufa), David, one of the many weird tufa rock formations around the lake. </div>
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Back home - if you look closely you will see a baby blue jay behind the leaves. The following day he left the nest and is now flying around the yard. Below is his daddy, a hard worker and devoted baby feeder. He is so used to us sitting outside that he allows us to get within a few feet of him.</div>
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I'm settling into Reno. I've been working on my book, but also doing a lot of painting. Above are three more paintings for my collection. I now have ten paintings that I started 10 months ago in Tucson. Some still need a little more work (like the one above), but they are mostly done. Below is a pine armoire from the 1930's that I painted for the Morris Burner Hotel in downtown Reno. My theme was goddesses. They have invited artists from Reno to volunteer their services and I decided it would be fun to do something. I got to meet lots of people.</div>
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Quan Yin, Brigid, Nut, Indian, Roman and Paleolithic goddesses cover the whole piece.</div>
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Below is Jungle Jim, the owner of the hotel, inspecting the armoire. He liked it.<br />
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Artist, Carol Ann Ricketts, was the only other artist who followed a goddess theme. She did an entire room with it. An admirer enjoys the room.</div>
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Since my book is about bartering, I have to keep my hand in so I proposed a barter to get my old computer fixed with Justin, the owner of Reno Computer Fix and he agreed. Below is the portrait I painted of him - he liked it and my computer is fixed. It was fun, especially when it turned out looking just like him.<br />
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Below, Mary, stopping on the trail in the foothills of Mount Rose. I met Mary at my first High Sierra Writers meeting and we've been doing things together ever since. She's great to go hiking with and receptive to discussing writing ideas. She got me to volunteer at the Mission where she volunteers one night a week. Across the street was the Morris Burner Hotel and I eventually volunteered there instead.<br />
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Below is Bob and his new wife Debbie. Bob is my landlord, the one who traded rent with me to wash 500 sheets from the Burning Man event (used by the massage people and healers.)</div>
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Just a few feet from my deck, a pair of doves have been building a nest. I've left out all sorts of things for them - straw and moss - but they prefer what they know, sticks. <br />
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Mount Peavine, below. I like to hike in the desert that surrounds the house. As you can see I live in a valley surrounded by mountains. On the other side of some of the mountains is Lake Tahoe.</div>
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I mostly just photograph the cloud formations here. It is tremendously windy so they are very beautiful. I'm not inspired to photograph the desert here. It's very brown but it's supposed to get better in the spring.<br />
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I moved to Reno at the beginning of September. The heat in Tucson was making me very ill. Not having a clue where to go I just started scanning Craigslist. I couldn't find anything I could afford, or even wanted, until I saw an ad (with photos) for a very large room in a house north of Reno. Never in a billion light years did I think I'd end up in Nevada. After being here for a couple of months I started making trips back to California to empty out my storage unit. It took me almost two months to do three 14 hour round trips and then unload and figure out where to put everything. Every trip I peeled off a layer of my art, going back in time. Very interesting to see everything again. Above, for the first time are all my "naked ladies" together. The ladies are standing in the large landing/room outside my room that I use as my studio.</div>
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Above are the three paintings I've been working on, no where near done, but started anyway. They are part of a series I started working on in Tucson of children and animals.</div>
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This is the house I live in now, shot from the back yard. You would never know we live in the middle of a desert with unending brown hills covered in sage. The yard here is grass with large shade trees planted twenty years ago. It also has a large garden and we are still eating the food from it (squash). Bob, the owner and landlord, has built 19 other houses in the area. The house is huge with seven giant bedrooms, three garages (used as storage by others), and a large communal kitchen. My room is 12 ft by 25 ft. with a large closet and huge 20 x 25 foot deck of my very own. I came here because Bob advertised for an artist and I was desperate for a large space so I could empty my storage unit. I arrived here at the end of the Burning Man event and Bob works with the healing group that goes every year - they give free massages, Reiki and stuff like that. I spent my first week doing a barter for rent by washing the 500 sheets that they had used for massages. I washed them, hung them out to dry, then folded and stacked them. Never again, but it helped out with the rent when I needed it. It was nice outside so it wasn't that much of a hardship, but it took a full week to do in my spare time. I've since arranged for a barter with the local computer repair people I found. They are quick and good and gave me virus protection for 29 years.</div>
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Above, the south facing end of my room, showing the doors to the deck. Below is the northern end with my bed and a nice large desk with lots of room to work. Besides the bed and desk, there are three dressers, three bookcases, three chairs, several tables, a sink with counter/wash-up area, and my easel. As you can see there is still lots of room for my yoga mat. I have been starved for space and this place fulfills my needs. The room came totally furnished, including a tv on cable and plug-in/wifi provided. I love my room. There is even a large storage area (the door is behind my paintings on the left) where I'm able to keep a lot of stuff. I even have stuff in tubs and covered in tarps and plastic in a corner of the deck. This in the first time in over twenty years I've been reunited with all my possessions. I've been slowly going through everything. Best thing of all about my room is that it's heated in the winter and air-conditioned when hot. I spent last winter freezing in Colorado where a wood fire (which always goes out at night) was the best they had to offer. Won't do that again.<br />
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Below is Maria, the woman who moved out of my room. Maria was Miss America in 1962. She's wearing one of the necklaces I made and bought several of them from me. To meet people I've joined the local Rock and Mineral Society and the Sierra Writers Group. <br />
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Below, Lake Tahoe from when I went hiking with Maria. She used to live here and she took me to one of her favorite hiking spots - at 8,000 feet. I don't breath very well at that altitude.<br />
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I've started meeting local artists, strangely, all metal artists. Below is Carey, a friend of Bob's and below that are three videos I've made of other metal artists in Reno. I find that making videos of artists is a great way to meet them. <br />
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Mostly I've been a hermit - reading, painting, unpacking, hiking the desert (until the cold blew in), totally weeding the garden below my deck (front and side yard for an hour a day for over a month) which was overgrown with sage, and working on my writing. I haven't taken very many photos here - I don't find the desert to be a place of beauty - just brown, everything brown. But, at 5,000 feet I find I can breath when I hike and this desert doesn't have any plants that hurt you, like the Sonoran desert. I'm hoping to make this place my home base. I'm tired of moving around looking for a home base. Unless something changes I'm going to try and do it here. At least I have lot of space that I can afford.<br />
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I thought I could do it - withstand the intense summer heat in Tucson. NOT. I rented a room in Christina's house and because of her cooling system I was fine as long as I stayed inside. To keep busy I began a series of paintings to raise people's frequencies. So far, it works. Everyone I've showed them to has smiled and I could feel their frequencies rising. I went on the internet and found bits and pieces of the images then made up the rest. None of them are done, they all have lots of little details that need to be finished, but I'm showing them anyway. Enjoy.</div>
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Christina, above, standing in her kitchen. Behind her is one of her daughter's paintings. Below, the gang: Robyn, Mark, Judy, Jeff, Christina, and Vivian. Playing dominos, eating, music, talking, fireworks, and just hanging out together. It was nice to be included in their activities.<br />
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I hadn't played dominos since I was very young. It was fun. I used to play lots of games (Scrabble, chess, bridge, rummy, etc), this made me realize that I hadn't played a game in many years. It looks pretty intense but everyone is just trying to find numbers that match.</div>
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Christina has a beautiful, peaceful garden, with a toadstool fountain and Buddha. She recently had to have three of her trees cut down when they died of a strange fungus disease. Trees are rare in Tucson. I often would sit outside after my morning hike and witnessed many dove love rituals in the peace of the mornings before the heat descended. (I have some video of them - must download it).</div>
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I arrived at Fran's house in Santa Cruz and found that 3 other refugees had moved in and were working on crafts with Fran. Below, Pat, came to be with her daughter when she gave birth, but needed a place to crash until the event happened. She spent the week gluing Fran's collection of broken glass beads to a cow skull she'd bought at a yard sale. Below that is Fran working on one of her clay projects. It was a very crafty weekend, then they all left.</div>
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Below is the fetish box I made for Fran. She gave me the antique feet years ago and it wasn't until I acquired this box that I knew what I was going to do with them. This box has many hours of fetish energy, from the inside calcite layer to the outside copper nails. Fran's totem animal is the crow.</div>
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So I've been having fun painting. Harmony and Health, one of the communities in the neighborhood had a big Bhakti Party and built a Sauna with amazing sound that looks like a giant tortoise. To go with the theme of tortoises and spirals I painted these three goddesses I found riding tortoises on the internet. Also painted 5 turtles and a large lizard to be used as signs and decoration. The guy who had moved out of the space I'm using as a painting studio the previous year left a lot of plywood pieces behind and I decided to turn them all into art.</div>
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Below, my giant Earth Mother is 113 ft long. She sits with her legs crossed on lotus blossoms, holding on to her belly, the Earth. I colored the North and South Americas green with field paint, then ran out of money. I'm now looking for a pilot to help me photograph her. To get this photograph I stood on the edge of the Bowl, 35 feet high, plus my height. I need an airplane, or a satellite.</div>
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Inside, the Sauna is an amazing sound resonator. A hum can sound like the mother ship coming in.<br />
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Just before Kaya headed back to Cincinnati we met at the BioSpere2 north of Tucson, where a group of people were sealed inside for two years, living sustainably on what they grew. It was a very interesting tour.</div>
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I found this little guy drowning in my water bucket. I tipped it over and spent 20 minutes giving him artificial respiration (not mouth to mouth) by rubbing his little back while he coughed and spit up and shivered in spasms. Finally, he stood up and staggered away like a drunk. The next day I think I saw him when one of the squirrels came near my door and I noticed that it was having a bad hair day. All the others were sleek while this little guy was looking frizzy..<br />
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