Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “musings”
I trust that Santa found your house and you didn’t get any coal in your stocking. Now that Christmas is over, I’m all for moving right along into Spring. I don’t know about you but I’m looking forward to 2017 and am welcoming it with open arms. Ever since I had my little flurry of TIA’s 3 years ago, I’ve …
I don’t about where you live but there’s a change a-comin’ in the weather around here. It’s almost Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer. How can that be when it was only last week I was looking forward to Memorial Day. It’s already a little over a month since we returned from our ride into Northern Minnesota and the …
The Plein Air Convention in Tucson, Arizona is coming up next week. I mention this because I’ll be there. This will be the 4th Plein air Convention. The previous 3 were in Monterey, CA. I advertise in the Plein Air Magazine so I thought I should go to the convention to see what it is all about. New development for …
I’m visiting son Ted in Kansas again, here to see our new born baby granddaughter for the first time. As you may recall, he lives in Manhattan, Kansas, which happens to be in the Flint Hills region of the state. It’s also in what’s known as the Tallgrass Prairie. I guess I sort of knew this but didn’t realize the …
And they are off! The start of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog race was today. You can go here to the official site for pictures and updates. I find this of interest because I used to run sled dogs here in Western Colorado and have been to the Yukon Quest, not as a musher but as a volunteer out …
I spent some time between playoff games this past weekend planning my plein air show schedule for 2016 on a large “year at a glance” wall calendar. I blocked out the days of the shows and entered the entry deadlines to help keep me stay on track. I have to do this because I am notorious for forgetting to meet the …
It looks like it’ll be a white Merry Christmas for a lot of us. We’re getting a pretty good snow right now in fact.That’ll be nice, especially for the kids. Dad can take the kids outside for a little sledding and snowman building. It’ll keep everybody out of the kitchen so Mom and do the cooking. Sounds idyllic doesn’t it. …
Our Thanksgiving Day was full of winter adventures and the Land of OZ…Kansas that is. We left for OZ on Thursday pulling our Arctic Fox travel trailer headed right into a major winter storm warning full of freezing rain, ice, snow and wind. What the heck. I’m an adventurous sort and our Arctic Fox trailer is a four seasons model …
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I’m not sure what the politically correct version of that is but I’m pretty sure you ought to know by now that I wouldn’t use it anyway. I think that Thanksgiving is by all accounts steeped in family get togethers and over indulging in the feast that those responsible worked so hard to prepare for our …
If the truth be known, my real love is watercolor. Don’t get me wrong, painting with oils is very satisfying and there are many really great oil painters both past and current. As most of you know by now, I paint in both. People often ask me which I prefer and I have to say watercolor. So you may be …