Monday February 16 2009

Hey Duene, When I saw your photo of Gypsum? Mtn. I remembered that I had done a painting of it from a slightly different view. So went looking for it on the external hard drive. We were on a trip over Union Pass and stopped up above Mosquito Lake looking across to it. It's done plein aire. Not sure I ever put this one on the blog. I had named it Big Sheep Mt., but Jonita who knows everything said it was Gypsum.

Another old one I came across. This is the Big Sandy River done plein aire at the Muddy Ridge bridge near Leickies. The grandkids were fishing and I painted there. The photograph is very poor because it was taken in a dark room at the buyer's home. I'll have to photograph it again one of these days.

Here's another old one I came across when looking for Gypsum Mt. The title is Un Kicija, which translates to "We two share between each other". The painting is actually in color, but I made this black and white photo for advertising with years ago. I like it pretty well in black and white. It's interesting that I went to the library and looked in a Sioux dictionary for a title and opened the book about halfway and there on that page was the perfect name. I was prepared to spend an hour or two finding something appropriate and was done in about 3 minutes.The painting is supposed to represent what the buffalo meant to the tribes. This man used to portray the Indian chief in the Rendezvous pagent here years ago.

Woke up realy early (look at those two words they have the same letters maybe one of them is spelled wrong) - about 3:30 -and my nose was very stuffy so used the neti pot. By then was wide awake so decided to sit at the computer for a while. Got some of my emails taken care of, so you'll all get a wad of forwards this morning. Decided I was hungry so got some grapenuts and a cup of tea. Not sure if going back to bed is going to happen or not. Is this boring or what???

Our taxes are finished so we need to go sign some papers at the accountant. And back to the clinic for another protime test. Hope it comes out good today. I guess I've been eating too many green vegetables. It's minus two degrees. When I let the dogs out in the middle of the night the stars were awesome. Maybe I'll go back to bed.