Another wild Saturday night

Put some nice touches on a few paintings. Still a few more need love but it's looking good down here in the studio.

Summer sun and the space-time continuum

Oh wait, it's January.  Well it felt like summer this weekend.  70's I think and gorgeous out.  Did a lot of just enjoying outside and did some mountain biking.  The shapes and sunlight were awesome.

Then this afternoon I saw some trees that had their spring buds coming out while still holding some fall leaves.  Aren't things supposed to happen one at a time?  Isn't the whole point of 'time' that things don't happen all at once, thus "space-time continuum"?  Hmmm...

Spring in California

Yup, it's spring already.

A green sketchy day

A little sketching and a little hiking today - and it's amazingly green in the hills now!  But first, a trip to Peet's to have a cookie and a tea and sketch some locals.  Here's a phone pic of that outing:

Coffee shops are nice because people are relatively absorbed in whatever they are doing and thus don't notice you.  They are also sitting still and there's a nice variety that comes and goes.

Then it was off for some suburban hiking to Arguello Park.  It's amazing how green it is now that we've had some rain.  There's a beautiful silence that you get in the woods on a hill.

Texture

Here's a close-up of some of the texture that I'm putting into a waterfall that I'm painting.

Water Dog Lake

Went for a quick mountain bike ride today to Water Dog Lake.  Much green now from all the rain, although oddly the lake itself is lower - there's some sort of a pumping thing there, although I'm not sure the story on why it gets lowered.  Lots of people out on the trail - the most I've ever seen, actually, which is a bit of an issue when you're blasting down a hill on a mountain bike.

Warm clouds

I like how it looks like there is a magic ray coming out of the climbing structure.

Cool clouds

Clouds and lines

Spring

It's January, and that means it's spring in California!

Oldie but goodie

Going through some old photos I found this one from 2008.  There's nothing quite like black and white.