Welcome To Studio Easy Hearts - Here's what's new!
Well, it's been awhile since I've done an update - been so busy!!! What with getting some new smaller gift items ready for the fall shows, and working part time at Riverside, it's been all go. I did have an unexpected, enforced day off, that I'd forgotten about - November 11th is a holiday for the University, and also the courts, so Doug and I decided to take a day to go fishing at Corona Lake. He's the life-long fisher, I just decided to join in his hobby earlier in the year. He'd caught a decent sized trout (13") there a couple weeks back, and was looking forward to a repeat. He caught nothing. I caught an almost 4lb trout. The lake owners take photos if you get a good catch. Unfortunately they are lake owners, not photographers, I didn't photoshop Doug out. Our day though had many other special moments. We saw a lot of birds up close (we were in a rented boat) including a heron that flew past about 10 feet away. Also saw a racoon that wandered down to the water, and two bobcats fighting on the bank... until they noticed the humans in the boats staring at them. Have you ever seen two cats try to act nonchalant in the middle of a fight? We got to cooking the trout when we had a party a couple weeks ago. Doug is better with the barbecue than I am, so he was in charge of cooking this fish. When he couldn't figure if it was cooked or not, he said to me, "Next time, catch dinner-sized trout. Not Monster Fish!!!" I'll try to remember that - we're fishing at Wiest Lake tomorrow!
One of my sayings is that we have two seasons here in the desert - heaven and hell.
And heaven is just starting to break out. It's now cool enough to sleep with the
windows open and the a/c off. Also the porch swing is back in use. This morning I got
up before dawn and sat out on the swing with coffee, waiting in the silence
for the sun to come up.
As I sat there, a hummingbird came and sat on the fence right in front of me,
considered me for about 10 seconds, then went on her way. You can see from the photo how close that was.
Switch to dusk. The sun had just gone down, and, having gotten as far as I could with
what I was painting, I went and sat out on the swing again, to watch the last light
of day across the water, enjoying some silence again, and this time some wine.
I was approached by a young rabbit that came out of the brush in the lot next door. Then,
was startled by the hummingbird that came right into the porch, and took a closer look
than she had this morning. She went back to the fence for a little while, then returned
to the mesquite to preen. She had been about two feet from my face! Wow. What perfect start
and end to the day.
I have so many things now that are going on with my artwork that I needed
to create new categories on the website. I decided to have a total revamp of
most of the areas.
On this page I'm going to be doing occasional news of what's going on
in my art world. Right now I'm looking forward to the next Fair Season.
I don't do many fairs in July/August - this year I've been quite busy for
most of that time with commissions and murals, and have had time too to create
quite a few new pieces for the first show of the season in San Diego. I'm looking
forward to getting back out there - and finding out all the muscles that have
withered over the summer!
We had storms here yesterday. This is one of the sunset from my front yard.
Dawn this morning was even more incredible, but I shot that with the film camera,
so it will be awhile before I get that up here!
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