I frequently walk on a trail from our barn while Maureen rides Zim. I enjoy looking at a lot of stuff along the way, from distant views to close-ups. Last winter I looked closely at the many kinds of mushrooms that popped up after rainstorms and thought about painting some but didn't. Finally this year I found a nice little grouping of them growing on an old stump that had just appeared one day and I painted them.
I was thinking of painting something from the few photos that I have of old Boy Scout trips, and I came across a photo of the waterfall at Glen Aulin that I took in 1962. Five miles downstream from Tuolumne Meadows the river drops over several spectacular waterfalls and this would have been in late June, when there was a lot of water. This was the last of seven summer trips that I did with the scouts and I was using dad's old 35 mm. Kodak camera taking Kodachrome slides.
On our late afternoon walks at Mammoth Lakes, we usually go along the lakeshore and cross a bridge over part of the Twin Lakes. We probably have many photos of this same view from the bridge, but I especially like it. I chose a shot from last September to paint it again.
