Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, Australia

Arrived in Alice Springs yesterday and toured the old telegraph station, The School of the Air, and Flying Doctors.  We traveled from Alice Springs to Ulura where we visited the Olga's in Tata Tjuta national park and enjoyed a sunset viewing of Uluru.  Today we hiked to a waterhole at the base of Uluru where we saw pictographs and enjoyed the landscape.  We visited the aboriginal cultural center.  We enjoyed watching aboriginal women painting.  Their art has lots of dots which represents the spinifex grass from the air.  Flew from Ayers Rock to Cairns and could see the circular patterns represented in the aboriginal art.

Melbourne Australia

We  arrived in Melbourne on May seventh, via LA to Auckland, crossing the International Dateline and losing May sixth entirely.  We enjoyed a city tour visiting St Paul's church , the outdoor market, Little Italy  and Fitzroy Gardens.  In the afternoon we took a tour to Prince Phillip Island, following the Nobbies along the coast to see wallabys in the wild as the sun was setting .  The ocean breeze from the south was brisk with Antarctica only 2000 miles away.  We watched the Little Penguins come to shore and waddle up the beach to their burrows.  Yesterday we visited the Yarra Valey and the Dandenong Mountains where we saw cockatoos and lorikeets and walked  the Lyrebird trail in a temperate rainforest with tree ferns, a landscape right out of "Jurassic Park".  We saw kangaroos, wallabys, koalas and the Tasmanian devil at a rehabilitation facility as well.  Melbourne is a city of four million and has  a great deal of charm with some beautiful historic buildings and many modern ones.

"Wandering Through Wilderness" 11 x 23" watercolor painting submitted to the Wyoming Wilderness Association for their upcoming show to celebrate fifty years of wilderness.

"Stars in Stripes" have migrated to Saratoga!  Pleased to announce that I am now represented by Blackhawk Gallery in Saratoga.  We delivered paintings yesterday for the upcoming season.

"Across the Valley" 11 x 23" watercolor
My donation piece for Rocky Mountain National Park Artist in Residence program.  The reference photo was taken from Lumpy Ridge and overlooks the Estes Park valley with Long's Peak in the distance.  My project involved finding the places where the early landscape artists did their work.  Birger Sandzen did his painting "Long's Peak" from this location.

"Bear Lake" study from Rocky Mountain National Park where I spent two weeks this past summer as an Artist in Residence.  Honored to be one of the jurors of selection for this summer's Rocky Artists in Residence.  I enjoyed seeing all the wonderful artwork that was submitted.

This little 5x7 watercolor portrait of a giraffe was purchased at Artisans' Gallery here in Laramie by the owner of the Blackhawk Gallery in Saratoga.  I happened to be coming in for some framing and met the owner and managers, Patty, Gwen and Kim.  They invited us to lunch and invited me to show in the Blackhawk gallery in Saratoga! Thanks Patty! And thanks to Brenda also.