Jenny and I got home in evening following a trip to the baby doctor… our little one is coming along well and momma is happy and healthy too! After doing a few quick oil paint studies of the sunset skies we took the dogs for a twilight walk around the “short loop” around the house [...]
I’ve been preping for a wolf ecology class to be held in the Lamar Valley but have still been keeping my 5am work schedule to get my drawing/sculpting/painting time in… nearing finish on a painting of an arrowhead blue butterfly for a friend… As an acknowledgement of our impeding baby boy’s arrival in October, I [...]
Been working on a few studies of master’s drawings. The last few mornings have been spent with Jacopo Pontormo… an amazing Renaissance artist and incredible draftsman.
Jenny and I decided to treat ourselves out to dinner tonight in the big city of Gardiner… not terribly exciting fare but it allowed us to relax with a walk with the pups and I’ll leave out the part about the less-than-relaxing attempt to fix the water hydrant at our well cover… Needless to say [...]
What’s the BB list you ask?… well, that is the “before baby” arrives list of house projects and such. It includes things like emptying out that bay of the garage that has been choked with our belongings since we moved last year at this time, fixing the hydrant spigot leak at the well, building a [...]
Jenny and I are having our last wilderness hoorah before the baby arrives. Our good friends Scott and Rebecca were kind enough to do a motor boat shuttle of our canoe and gear from Bridge Bay Marina into the south arm of Yellowstone Lake. In light of momma’s hightened state of self preservation, and the [...]
Dawn came clear and calm and we all slept in a bit. I did manage to get up around 6:30am and took a short walk to the north of our campsite. Scott and Rebecca not only brought dinner last night but they also managed to bring a wonderful breakfast for this morning - home made [...]
With sun peering through the tent fly and the hush of water lapping at the shore we arose for the day - a day of paddling. No fear, only 7 miles to go to our campsite where we will stay for the next two evenings. This will be the most remote spot we see on [...]
