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Pollenators
You think your lawn is a space, but to pollinators it is the equivalent of pavement. We have some natives as well as annuals in our yard. The bumble bees and butterflies love our hyssop. Later they will be all over the asters. In an 18 inch row along our driveway we cast wild flowers. Continue reading
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Updated Gallery space
I switched a few pictures to fit the theme of Downtown Paint Around. DTPA open house is August 1 from 5-7pm at River City Gallery. La Crosse. Continue reading
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Paint Around
River City Gallery holds a Downtown Paint Around every July. The rule is Plein Air within 1 mile of the gallery. I chose a house of friends on Cass and 10th. It was a gray day, but pleasant. I am aiming for a free-ish expression, but trying to depict the architecture. There are so many Continue reading
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Some Prairie Pollenators
Here are some friends we my et at Perrot State Park while camping. We also saw several species of dragonflies who were too busy to pose. Continue reading
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Camping with sketchbook
We are at Perrot State Park camping for a few days. In the morning we headed to a shady bench for my watercolor and Jer’s stitching kit. Mount Trempeleau is short for the name given by French explorers, ” The Mountain with its foot in the water.”. Before the French and since it is a Continue reading
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Young vine
Updated. I started this Plein Air at Elmaro, but tossed it aside. I took it home and restarted it with a photo reference. Vines have lots of details to get lost in, for example leaf veins and vine tendrils. The cloud probably looks like Mt. Rainier from my home state. Acrylic paint on a gessoed Continue reading
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Greenhouse
We live in the city, have been reducing lawn and adding native plants, currants, and columnar apples. Now we have a small green house for seed starting and extending the season for potted plants. Jerry found the plan on the internet. Creation care means for us planting for birds and pollinators, avoiding herbicides and insecticides, Continue reading
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Trempeleau and Elmaro
It was a successful set of events. The Plein Air events at Trempeleau National Wildlife refuge had 20 participating artists.We has some rain, but we worked around that. We also had 14 artists showing at Elmaro’s Crush Pad Gallery. We will be back at the gallery next June Finally we had artists each Sunday in Continue reading
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Elmaro #3 with Friends
Hazy day fun I was joined on father’s day by a crowd, partner, daughters, granddaughters, friends… Continue reading
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