tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291955702024-03-13T11:52:23.393-06:00Moonflower Musinga journal of pictures and ideasJulia Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03577906856043143102noreply@blogger.comBlogger414125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29195570.post-76616644209879878992017-05-13T15:29:00.000-06:002017-05-13T15:50:31.229-06:00Begin Again.....and Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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submitted it for a juried show over on the East Slope, a.k.a the Front Range of Colorado and.....it didn't get in.<br />
It happens, and don't worry, this post is not about the injustice of it all. My husband got that earful the last couple of days...and my daughter, driving home from picking her up at college. I told her I just wanted to know if there really was any value in my art or was it more akin to the pool hall dogs on black velvet. She just looked at me and then I thought.... All art has value, even the pool shooting dogs so I'm over it.<br />
And now I can share Begin Again and explain it. To do that, we have to go back to the Tudors and to Queen Elizabeth the First.<br />
Not to go all Art History on you, but, the<span style="color: orange;"><u> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_period"><b><i>Tudor Period of England</i></b></a></u>,</span> roughly 1485-1603, without Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and network news the monarchy had to find a way to communicate with the masses and the way they did that was with symbolism. Every flower had a meaning and everyone knew them. Well, all the people in the know knew them, probably not the serfs out in the fields. But the royal court studied paintings. How a hand was held, what it rested on, what or whom was in the reflection in the mirror, all had meaning. Queen Elizabeth the First knew how to communicate to her subjects and commissioned many a portrait with such symbols as below in the Isaac Oliver's Rainbow Dress.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">It looks like the Virgin Queen is about to siphon some gas out of a tank or something. She's not. The "rainbow" colors have faded over time. What has not faded is the bedazzled serpant on her sleeve proclaiming back to Eve...</span></div>
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and God's endorsement to the monarch and "the eyes" and "ears" covering the dress, to declare...." I see and hear everything and am watching you all and listening."</div>
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Studying the Tudors communication by symbolism made me want to try it. Thus...<i><b>.Begin Again</b></i>, which I talked about how I made in my previous post<u> <a href="http://moonflowerstudio.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-hands-are-always-occupied.html"><b><i>here</i></b></a>.</u></div>
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I didn't crochet the lace that became the curtain. That, was made by my great grandmother, who we called Grandmommy. We named our youngest after her and I have her piano.I did knit the sweater, made from yarn that daughter brought me from Ireland last summer, when she got to see County Limerick where our family came from.</div>
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The baby is my other daughter, a snap shot of her and me as a reference...</div>
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I call her my "Runaway Bunny" because of Margret Wise Brown's book, which if you haven't you should read...</div>
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The butterfly, in winter? <i>My</i> "Runaway bunny" grew up and modeled for me again...<br />
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and I've made a few butterflies in my day... more about Migration in Moab<u> </u><b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://moonflowerstudio.blogspot.com/2012/10/if-sky.html">here</a>. </b>The dog?<br />
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Max, my beloved newfie lab that was by my side raising our babies and I still miss everyday...<br />
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The winter view of our old homestead, I have looked out at for over twenty years, a change from my childhood when I moved nine times before I headed off to college. </div>
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What does it all mean?<br />
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I don't know, nothing deep. Just this fall, my last baby went off to college and I absolutely loved being a mother to my two girls, so I did some art therapy in stitching to come to terms with my little birdies flying away to their adventures.<br />
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So Happy Mother's Day to me, to my mother, to my grandmothers and to my great grandmothers and to my daughters, who I hope will be mothers someday and well, Begin Again...<br />
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So, I'm an artist, I'm a mother and a wife, I'm the head cook of a soup kitchen, thus the pictures on Twitter and Instagram of food...<br />
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and tallies of how many people I and others have fed on a given meal ( low is around 80 people, high is about 130) At the soup kitchen, my official title is head cook and food coordinator. Which means I manage the other cooks, find the food, transport much of the food and well stock and sort the food....<br />
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Above is twelve cases of orange peppers...all at once. So, two mornings a week, with others, plus a few more scattered hours in the week, my hands and mind are busy cooking. Five to six afternoons a week, I am alone, stitching my art.... </div>
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Everything I do does take a lot of time, starting with the planning and designing ...<br />
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Sometimes I do come up with crazy ideas at the end, like adding a three inch border of vintage buttons. So I get on Etsy, find vintage sellers who have purchased 50 gallon trash cans of buttons from a little old lady who has been collecting them for 40 years. They quickly ship them from the Midwest to Colorado and then I stitch them down, all picked from the box of 900 for color and size, then purposefully placed and sew them on. </div>
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I'll show the finished piece pretty soon, I'm waiting to see if it gets into a juried show this summer. But the crazy notion of stitching so many buttons reminds me of stitching @#$@$@ butterflies on to Migration Through Moab, a large fabric collage of my oldest daughter that literally took me a year to make. </div>
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The buttons took my 2.5 days from about 6 in the morning until 9 at night. It was easy to keep track because my husband was out of town, I was by myself and as he left, I walked down our drive and shut the gate, for the reason the cows had been messing with the fences and if they were successful in getting out of where they should stay, the closed gate would at least keep them in the yard until he got back to deal with them....I don't do cows and in theses parts, people are leery to go through closed gates without invitation. So I was completely alone, stitching buttons from sun up to sun down and then some.<br />
I rotated between two different couches and on top of my bed, listening to books on tape, half paying attention to a whole lot of youtube, and mindless TV series and movies, because choosing color and shape and stitching through the buttons twice really doesn't ask a lot of ones brain. But, this is what you do when there is a deadline fast approaching for a juried show and you get a good idea late in the game. When all was finished, my shoulders, arms and tips of my fingers hurt for days. But I made the deadline with a half a day to spare.<br />
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Right before the button frenzy, Jon found this in the cow's pen...<br />
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It's a stone tool, a grinding stone for either pecking and scratching art into rock or for grinding pigment, dropped or forgotten by an ancient artist possibly 800 years ago and buried on the land at the base of Mesa Verde that now we call home.<br />
One thing we have many of.... within the boundaries of<span style="color: #7f6000;"> </span><a href="http://www.mesaverdecountry.com/see-do/archaeology/canyons-ancients"><span style="color: #45818e;">the Canyon of the Ancients Monument</span> </a>, are archaeologists and a few are my good friends. Pretty cool when you find something interesting and can text an expert, who is excited to see it and tell you all about such a tool. We found the stone on our own land, so I get to keep it... artifacts, even pot shards on public lands should be left where you find them per the law, but I've taken pictures to share later.<br />
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I'm taking up a National challenge featured<span style="color: #bf9000;"> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/can-you-name-5-women-artists_us_58b6bf6ae4b0780bac2ec9b1"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">HERE</span></a></span> in this Huffington Post article, to name off the top of my head 5 women artist.<br />
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I had to really think about it and I am a women artist.<br />
How many male artist can I name starting now.... Goya, Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Rembrandt, Wyeth, his son Wyeth and his son Wyeth, Sendak, Renoir, Whistler, Carle, Matisse, DiVinci, Chagall..... I could go on and on and those are just the ones I am pretty confident I can spell.<br />
Are there just not that many memorable female artists?<br />
There is a question larger then the time I have today....I have to take a sick cat to the vet, not my cat and not my plan for my day, but it is one of the random chore that pops up on any given day for most women who have chosen to live the life of wife and mother between raising our children and taking care of our aging parents. Somedays you get to devote your time to taking somebody else sick cat to the vet and other chores for the good of the family. Humm. think Picasso stopped his art for such things? I can tell you he didn't... read a previous post on the routines of famous artists, male and female <span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><a href="http://moonflowerstudio.blogspot.com/2014/02/routines-of-writers-and-artistsbut-who.html"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">HERE</span></a> </span>.</span> I highly recommend the book too.<br />
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But on to the subject at hand and it should be no surprise that my list has one thing in common. My list is made up of women who have NOT turned their backs on the most important part of being a women... creating and raising a family.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.carllarsson.se/en/karin/"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Karin Larrson</span></a> </span></div>
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Wife of <span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Larsson"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Carl Larrson</span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">,</span></span> a Swedish well known Arts and Crafts movement artist in the mid to late 1800's....<br />
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You might be wondering why there is a cat? The family story is that Maria or one of the other potters my husband's parents visited back in the 60's in New Mexico wanted to buy my in laws cat. Yes they traveled with a cat when they came West on buying trips for their Western Wear store near Chicago called The Hitching Post.<a href="http://moonflowerstudio.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-never-know.html"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> Here</span></a> is another post about the pots they bought back then and what they put in them. Let's just say "value" is in the eye of the beholder.<br />
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I love the PBS show <a href="http://www.craftinamerica.org/"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Crafts In America</span></a> and I love any episode on quilting or stitching. Although the quilters out of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quilts_of_Gee's_Bend"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Gee's Bend</span></a>, Alabama are more well know, the ladies that get together at this community center in Missippi are pretty amazing and at the top is Mrs. Rankin who won a National Heritage Fellowship in the 90's and traveled to the White House to meet the then first lady Hillary Clinton. </div>
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As a young artist and a young mother I was so moved by Children Book Illustrators like Australian Julie Vivas. How wonderful, the adjective used most by my main Art School professor and only female in the department, were Vivas water color characters and look at her hands. Then very soon as a young mother, many times did I hold my baby daughter and read...<br />
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But the reality is that many many women that created though the ages have not been remembered or celebrated. A few have in Mirra Bank's 1979 book. Including Elizabeth Glaser's <i>Lady in A Yellow Dress...</i><br />
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We have no idea how many of these painted and stitched treasures are tucked away in the attics and closest of family houses or been tossed away.<br />
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Most of the works and writing in Anonymous Was a Women were done before these girls were married and had children. I had the privilege to continue my art after marriage and motherhood and know I have freedoms and choice because of what women before me have done.<br />
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But I also have freedom as an artist and mother because of my husband working hard to provide for our family and that is why Karin Larrson and her husband Carl are such an inspiration...<br />
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Who is that? Behind him, stitching away in the next room? Just a women who will inspire a ethnic style shift away from gaudy heavy Victorian interiors.<br />
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Which is still how most of us live now... thanks to a women taking care of her family who didn't give up her own sense of style and had a husband who supported her.<br />
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<br />Julia Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03577906856043143102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29195570.post-32170914058440829562017-02-09T23:35:00.000-07:002017-02-16T12:27:46.477-07:00Vantage Point...of a German Shepherd<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In High School I did photo shoots of my "punked out" friends in spiked hair, sunglasses and trench coats and developed the black and white photos in my step dad's dark room. In Art School I "masked out" half the exposed paper to put my roommate in a cereal box. I graduated in 1990, the year Adobe released Photoshop.<br />
Eventually I learned photo editing software, updated my camera and updated it again when technology changed and I could afford it, but I never forgot my photography professor's description of a " Pinhole Camera"...a black painted box, with film inside and ....one single pinhole for a lens and the implication was clear, it's not the camera that takes great photos.<br />
Since Art School, I've never taken his challenge to shoot <i>camera obscura </i>photography, but I do believe there's a time to use my big bodied, big lens Nikon D3300 and there is a time to take out my phone camera, currently a LG V20.<br />
Like when a photo-op presents itself crammed into a gondola with eight skiers who really wanted one more run down the slopes above Telluride, Colorado and didn't mind or notice there was our rather large German Shepherd/ Lab dog residing on the floor, named Piper.<br />
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To use my Nikon to capture this moment, I'd had to of stood up on the bench of the gondola conforming my body to the domed top or literally be outside swaying on the top of it.<br />
Small, unobtrusive cameras captures moments of time far better for the reason people tend to not notice them and you can use them in cramped spaces. Small cameras that have the ability to capture vivid, light filled moments like a bigger DSLR (digital single lens reflex camera) now that would be something.<br />
A new company...<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> <a href="http://light.co/"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Light.co</span></a> </span>is claiming such a thing, introducing their <a href="https://light.co/camera"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Light L16 compact camera</span></a> to the market and it is the exact opposite of the pin hole camera with...<br />
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Images of the Light L16 camera images are filled with amazing light and color, but it is the promise of what multi lenses will do with the "depth of field" that is most intriguing for me, each lens taking in essence a photo at a certain depth so they are all crisp and clear and then layering them together. </div>
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Light.co's Pinterest board<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/thelightco/vantage-point/"> <span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Here</span></a> features photographers who share a picture from their favorite location, which can be a challenge now days with most digital photographers scanning through 1000's not 100's of choices,</div>
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Picking one photo was a tough one for me, living in the Four Corners where I've shot images both in the snowy mountains of Colorado and red rock deserts of Utah over the same weekend. But the hastag #vantagepoint really stuck with me and I have no better example of a vantage point than capturing my very large black dog looking right in the camera with brown eyes asking me...."Do I really have to put up with this?"<br />
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Below Ophir Pass at just under 10,000 feet above sea level is the little town of Ophir, Colorado, an old mining town that still has life for those wanting to live off the beaten path, literally just below where the plows stop plowing....</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Waiting for hiking weather to come to Grand Tetons National Park, we went to explore Mormon Row situated near the Gros Ventre river. </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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The buildings that are left have now becoming iconic images, captured by weathered photographers coming out at the crack of dawn to get the sun coming up over the Tetons behinds the iconic barns, stark homes and outbuidlngs.<br />
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But walking past the windows of the pink house, my thoughts were on the women homesteaders. How successful were they at getting some flowers to grow outside and did they have geraniums in the windows?<br />
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Never during our trip to Grand Tetons National Park, did the sun illuminate all the peaks in all their glory. </div>
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Monday, coming out of our hotel room in Jackson, the smoke from the Berry Fire, which straddled the border between Grand Tetons and Yellowstone parks and closed the road for two days, created an eerie haze over the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Elk_Refuge"> <span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Elk Refuge</span></a>... </div>
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Seeing the glorious peaks rise up from the valley floor is such an iconic view for a moment I was disappointed but then again this isn't an Amusement park. Other than Old Faithful in Yellowstone, which does somewhat hold to a set schedule... this is wilderness and that, ladies and gents is the reason why these natural wonders are so important. </div>
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We love to camp at Jenny Lake in Grand Tetons, as does everyone else, so we got ourselves a coffee/tea and a bagel, and early in the morning, made our way into the park to see who was leaving...</div>
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luckily it was the end of the season, literally the last full week the Jenny Lake campground was open, so we had a few choices and course we had to circumvent the campground, a couple of times before compromising ( aghhh...me getting my way). But look at the view we had sitting around the fire pit. Yes, the trail to the bathrooms were right on the other side of the tent, but contrary to Jon, I saw that as a plus. Close proximity to the outhouse, in grizzly bear country I see as a good trade off to foot traffic.</div>
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Too dreary to do any hiking, we then circumvented the Park, going north up the park road and then south down the Jackson Hole highway, we stopped at the Cunningham cabin.... </div>
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J. Pierce Cunningham and his wife were one of the first homesteaders who tried to make a go at the base of the Grand Tetons. All I can say is burrrrrrrrrr.....<br />
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Getting back to camp we just enjoyed the view and realized that we had not camped, together and alone in about twenty five years. We have taken kiddos all over the Rocky Mountains and this was our third camping trip to Jenny Lake. We did do quite a bit of weekend jaunts just the two of us, but apparently a nice hotel in Santa Fe seemed more appealing to us when our kiddos were home.</div>
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The heated outhouse was rather nice and but covered in bear etiquette warnings in the stalls. <u>Keep all smelly things including lotions, toothpastes in locked car or bear box. Don't sleep in clothes you ate or cooked in.</u>... that one was a little disturbing laying on the ground with just a thin nylon tent between you and a grizzly wanting a snack...<br />
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The clouds and sun gave us a awe inspiring view of the Cathedral group above Jenny Lake</div>
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So in the middle of the biggest harvest of well everything on our old homestead...<br />
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If you are not in the "Etsy" know, it is an online marketplace for art, hand made goods, art and craft supplies, vintage goods and it is really really cool, like hipster cool. Started in 2005, read about their history <a href="https://www.etsy.com/about/?ref=ftr"><span style="color: orange;">HERE</span></a></div>
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We were blessed with an apricot harvest, the first one in like four years. At 7,000 feet, the frost often kills the blooms before they can set fruit. But this year God gave us a bounty.<br />
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The apricots ripen south to north. We are now harvesting the fruit on the last tree in the apricot grove. The trees are over a hundred years old, Mr, Linsbury who we bought the homestead from remembered climbing in them as a young boy, he passed away at 90, fifteen years ago....<br />
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So Jon picked all weekend long and I found ways to use them in the kitchen...</div>
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First we pitted the golden fruit and dipping them in orange juice, hung out two full air dehydrators on the porches. Dried apricots with orange juice is the yummiest snack through the winter.</div>
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Then more washing, pitting and this time puree-ing, I managed to put up 8 quarts of Apricot butter... </div>
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No, fake pectin, I cooked the sauce down on the stove top, have the sugar burns on my arms to prove it. Though I have come to the conclusion it is impossible to get the butter up to the desired 105degrees C at 7,000 ft in the Colorado mountains. It just hovered around 95-100 for about ten minutes, putting a plate with a spooful of butter on it in the freezer to test when it is thick enough, works better.</div>
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I'll not only use the apricot butter for toast and P,B, J's, but also there is are lot of recipes I started collecting on Pinterest using apricot glazes for chicken dishes and sauces.</div>
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Washing more, I made an apricot pie for dinner on Sunday <span style="text-align: center;">to celebrate all my kiddos being home at the same time. </span><br />
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We feasted on steak from our local market, Olathe sweet corn, grilled Palisade peaches, heirloom tomatoes and crusty bread from the farmer's market and even beer from our Dolores River Brewery. Don't know if the potatoes were from Southwest Colorado. </div>
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This morning, with still a little bit of apircots waiting in the in kithen, I got out the dish I make cobbler in and sliced apricots until I had enough for the recipes. A half a cup of orange juice poured over them, they were stuck in an old plastic bread bag and put in the freezer, to be used this winter.<br />
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Infact, I'm enjoying a bit of it as I write this post. It's always better a few days later.<br />
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The 2016 <a href="http://www.12hoursofmesaverde.com/"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">12 HOUR OF MESA VERDE</span></a> mountain bike race happened this weekend under</div>
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When we were in Ventura, California I dragged my family away from the beach and the usual touristy stuff...</div>
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to visit the Post Office, more accurately to gaze upon the 360 view of murals painted by Gordon Grant as part of the WPA's Art Program during the Great Depression.<br />
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A small part of the New Deal program, detailed<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">here</span></a></span> on Wikipedia that was envisioned by Franklin Roosevelt's administration to put to work many of the young men that had lost their jobs because of the crashing economy...</div>
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FDR put Harry Hopkins in charge of the WPA and Hopkins put Holgar Cahill in charge of the Arts programs. And it is a wonderful thing that Hopkins was of the opinion that "artist have to eat as well," so 15,000 to 20,000 pieces of artwork were created between 1935 and the middle of World War 2.</div>
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Gordon Kenneth Grant, came from an artist family, his father. Gordon Hope Grant, was an illustrator who worked with The Saturday Evening Post and the Boy Scouts of America. His son, painted the mural at the Ventura Post Office...</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">In the style of "America Scene" painting, bringing to mind the industrious farmer and worker in their orchards and fields the Ventura Post Office murals are not that dissimilar to other patriotic works of the time to encourage a since of national pride and communal direction.</span></div>
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Like this painting of young steelworkers coming out of the USSR. View more Socialist Realism paintings<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> <a href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/socialist-realism.htm"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">here</span></a></span>. </div>
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But even though the panels at Ventura post office and other WPA murals have somewhat of a propaganda tilt to them, they have not become a national treasure. </div>
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And in recent years, as the memory of that time in our national history fades away with the passing of the people who lived it, we are also losing the art as well, as new government buildings and public works are being built the painting, sculptures, and panels are being stuffed away in storage, claimed by unknown entities or thrown away. </div>
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The effort to retain these pieces that belong to us all and protect them was recently highlighted on Antiques Road Show, click below to watch... </div>
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Art. as I have said before, meaning nothing...<br />
It is not necessary to live, can not sustain life or protect it.<br />
But Art also means everything...<br />
and does a very good job of declaring who we are and where came from.<br />
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that actually includes such things as relocating nuns, earthquake, tidal waves and pirates, was built starting in 1782 by Franciscan Priest and the labor of the Native Chumash tribe, including a elaborate ditch system to bring water to the mission, surrounding gardens and orchards.<br />
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Here, posters annoucing the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the Francisan priest to the shores of California have now become relics themselves...<br />
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Yes, I have a thing for churches, all sizes. Intrigued by the beautiful important missions as well as the more primitive village churches captured <i><a href="http://moonflowerstudio.blogspot.com/2015/08/churches-on-high-road-santa-fe-to-taos.html"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">here</span></a></i>, from the High Road to Taos...<br />
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<br />Julia Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03577906856043143102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29195570.post-10580266824980383102016-04-13T15:55:00.004-06:002016-04-13T15:59:05.929-06:00Channel Islands: Where They Left Prisoners and Other Isolated Critters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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to make our way to the largest of the Channel Islands, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/santa-cruz-island.htm"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Santa Cruz</span></a>, protected by the National Park Service and the <a href="http://www.nature.org/"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Nature Conservancy</span></a>. We gained access at <a href="https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/historyculture/prisoners.htm"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Prisoner's Harbor</span>,</a> a locale with a sorted past, that included the forced removal of the Chumash tribe, native's to the islands for hundreds of years and an ill conceived transplant of prisoners, left on the island with supplies and livestock around 1830, that did not go so well. The prisoners trying to make boats from not completely cured cow hide that ended attracting shark.</div>
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Since then the island has been mostly been a private cattle ranch, only recently donated to the public...</div>
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Little buildings are left on this side of the island, one of the few still standing near the shore were storage sheds where goods were stored until the occasional boat came to the island. </div>
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Gathering for instructions from our guide, we woke up an<a href="https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/nature/island-fox.htm"> <span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Island Fox</span></a>, just recently brought back from the edge of extinction by local efforts. Tiny as a small cat, the fox only resides on the Channel Islands and nowhere else in the world. </div>
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Not overly developed, the island is also a supreme example of how the coastline of California would look, if not for the great development on the other side of the Santa Barbara Channel.</div>
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Santa Cruz is one of the least visited public parks, needing a guide to explore the trails. </div>
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I gladly sent my "mountain goat" family along and sat here and tried to sketch this view. The same one the man on watch would have, ready to signal the passing ships of the need to transport the goods waiting in the storage sheds near the peer. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Mostly I just stared off to the horizon and hoped the boat came back for us, I had heard it's engine roar and watched it move off to the other side of the island. The whole experience was unnerving, much more than the time I have spent on top of a mountain, looking down at valleys thousands of feet below.</span><br />
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Crossing the channel again, we took a meandering route and were rewarded with another sighting of a humpback, its black slick skin glistening atop the water. What great creatures has God created and what a privilege to travel along side them.<br />
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<br />Julia Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03577906856043143102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29195570.post-25979031538624592552016-04-07T22:43:00.000-06:002016-04-07T22:45:28.618-06:00The Channel Islands: Better Than Sea World...<br />
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Near one of the oil rigs that are paced off along the Santa Barbara Channel, a shallow shelf of a mere eight hundred and fifty feet or so, before the ocean bottom drops to thousands of feet, the show continued with a feeding frenzy on the surface of the water. Pelicans and seagulls swirling above...<br />
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After perusing the Wyeth Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, (my review<i> <a href="http://moonflowerstudio.blogspot.com/2016/02/trip-to-denver-wyeth-exhibt.html"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">here</span></a></i>)we headed downstairs to partake of<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> <a href="http://denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/place-sun"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">A Place In The Sun</span></a></span>, featuring the painting of Walter Ufer and <span style="color: black;">E. Martin Hennings, t</span>wo artist of Germany decent that made their way from the East Coast to Taos, New Mexico both around 1915 and were funded by the mayor of Chicago, Carter Harrison and Oscar Mayer, yup the hot dog tycoon.<br />
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Ufer's painting are rough and full of symbolism. The smartly dressed docent, who was leading a gaggle of stylish Denverite ladies around the show near us got that right.... </div>
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Past that, she got about everything else wrong. Yes, I live in the Four Corners, very near Taos and next to the Navajo and Ute reservations, have taught Native American children for about a decade, am an artist which can make me annoying on "the facts", but when I hear an official volunteer with the mini microphone and touch pad declare not slight errors but grievous misinformation on a culture she and the museum, according to the plaques beside the painting have no interesting in "getting right", it makes me cringe.<br />
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"Are these from Guatemala," asked one of the ladies, pointing out the brightly colored blankets Ufer depicted on several of his subjects. No response from the Docent.<br />
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Standing in front of Ufer's painting "Me and Him,"another of the ladies in the group asked why they looked so mad. The Docent's response, was..."Well, they are just a mad people."<br />
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Pause,,,,yes, she declared that the indegnious people who saw their land, culture and lives being taken over by the Western expansion of Anglo Europeans were just "cranky".<br />
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Then, pondering "The Solemn Pledge", borrowed by the DAM from<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> the Chicago Institute of Art</span>...<br />
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The Docent declared the painting depicted several generations of father and son, as they sent the boy off to Indian School where he would learn "how to be an Indian."<br />
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I know the Denver Art Museum is well, an art museum, not a history museum. But to be frank, they aren't that good at getting the art part right either. As I mentioned at the top of the post, we also viewed the <span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><a href="http://moonflowerstudio.blogspot.com/2016/02/trip-to-denver-wyeth-exhibt.html"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Wyatt show</span></a>,</span> featuring father and son Andrew and James. The reality is this, there is a wide, wide gap between being an artist and being a docent or a volunteer that works at an art museum, reading off the important bullet points listed for them....<br />
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Ease dropping in the Wyeth show, there were times I think the docents didn't really understand what they were reading off. I've been to enough museums and observed enough patrons to conclude they mostly want a short, ordered description to what they are looking at or sometimes just to be told what they should think about the painting in front of them. That is bad enough when the painting depicts something somewhat familiar to them.<br />
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But when the subject, the indigenous people surrounding Taos New Mexico already has volumes and volumes of bad information, I can't stand anymore grievous misconceptions being added to people's perception.<br />
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The US Government did not set up Indian School to teach the native population how to be better Indians. They pulled children from their mother's arms, sometimes at gunpoint to literally "breed out the Red Man" by distancing the younger generations from their cultures, their language and their families. Cutting their hair, dressing them in White Man's clothing, beating them if they spoke their native tongues, teaching them a trade and often farming them out to be servants and laborers...<br />
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Thus many of Ufer's subjects were of the Pueblos Indians gardening and working for their White employers...<br />
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The plaque next to the painting talks more about Ufer's last great work being a self portrait, connecting the spent artist to the old car, instead of the dejected assistant, sitting on the bumper, obviously more important to Ufer, for his placement in the painting, then the old car.<br />
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Reality was and still is, that places like Taos and Santa Fe are attractive to rich Easterners like Henning, Ufer and even Georgia O'Keeffe for holidays, artists retreats, second homes where labor is cheap, real cheap.<br />
In New Mexico, though Anglos are in the minority, they hold the power, politically and have the say in most matters, like land. President Teddy Roosevelt took 48,000 acres of the Taos Pueblos land, land they have had claim to since the 13th century and made it part of the Carson National Forest. The land, including the Blue Lake which the Taos People consider sacred. The holdings were finally returned to them 1970 and 1996.<br />
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After "the business" was completed, we went to the <a href="http://denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/wyeth"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Denver Art Museum's exhibition</span></a> of arguably the greatest American family of artists, father and son- Andrew and Jamie Wyeth...</div>
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So popular is the Wyeth legacy, started first by "the grandfather" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._C._Wyeth"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">N.C, Wyeth</span></a>...<br />
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whose was one of our great American illustrators of the Golden Age and whose "prop" boots were on display...<br />
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The DAM show, which when I was a kid and went Denver on field trips to the Art Museum, would love to keep the little badges that proved we had paid the admission, cause it spelled a "naughty" world. Sadly, this trip I only got a sticker that spelled out the full name, but I digress.<br />
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This show featured N.C. son,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyeth"> Andrew Wyeth</a> ( 1917-2009).....<br />
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and the Olson family. His most famous painting that of Christina's World, gazing up through the grass of the Olson's farm. The finished painting was not at the DAM, but one of his preliminary sketches was, showing the energy of the idea, that is often lost when the idea is worked out.<br />
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Tourist and well, lots and lots of "older ladies", who made the day interesting. First, they are concerned with everything, their business and others. They first took notice of us, because the "Member's line" was rather long, cause they all come mid day, mid week and we were the only ones in the "other line" and they were rather vocal about that. Then, once our tickets were bought and we were waiting in the rope queue, they were rather upset we did not want to listen to the audio commentary, one reaching over the rope to stop us from going in, unguided to be washed this way and that in the exhibit hall. </div>
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And I was Jon's whispering commentary, directing him to appreciate the photograph of the wooden box on the shore line and telling him of Andrew Wyeth's frustration with gawkers while he tried to work and his solution.<br />
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The show was very telling, especially the progression of<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Wyeth"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Jamie Wyeth</span></a> </span>, (1946- ), showing him experimenting for his voice, painting such icons as Warhol....<br />
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at the end of the show, by that time, I wanted to distance myself, cause, well, I had had my fill of "the gaggle". Unfortunately I would have to deal with them again in <span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><a href="http://denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/place-sun"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">A Place in the Sun</span></a> </span>Exhibit...</div>
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But when that was done, we stayed around for a couple of days. For one, to explore the newly renovated <span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><a href="http://unionstationindenver.com/"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">Union Station</span></a> </span>on the Northwest end of downtown...</div>
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Denver continues to add to their mass transit system, a sleek new hub between Union Station and the South Platte River in LoDo (lower downtown).</div>
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The old Union Station has been a anchor on the Northwest corner of the Sixteenth Street Mall...<br />
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Now<a href="http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_26139214/denvers-renovated-union-station-has-been-30-year"> <span style="color: #d0e0e3;">it is renovated to the tune of 54 million dollars</span></a><span style="color: #d0e0e3;"> </span>and gorgeous. </div>
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We got our tree by train. That is the Durango Silverton Train up in Cascade Canyon, where the trees near the tracks needed to be thinned out, since hot coal ash spits out along the tracks. So early in the morning we drove over the snowy pass....<br />
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but the train kept going a little bit farther to the Cascade stop where the passengers could sip hot cider and warm themselves around fire pits, while we found our trees...</div>
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We took our chances with one that looked good on the front, but was crammed up against other trees, since it has to go up against a wall, near a pathway in our house. We were a little worried about getting back to the tracks, since the train is the only way out. We could have taken a little bit more time...</div>
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<br />Julia Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03577906856043143102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29195570.post-14521790534251581862015-11-29T18:53:00.000-07:002015-11-29T18:53:30.505-07:00Continuing the HolidayEating in Santa Fe...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Friday, we drove down to Santa Fe, like we do so many years, getting into the square as the sun was going down and the town was getting ready to light the plaza, and welcome Santa...<br />
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We ate New Mexican food coming down from Colorado, at the Chaco Grill, at the Phillips 66 gas station in Cuba. Then once in town, we ate at Maria's Kitchen, a locals favorite for about 40 years and Robert Redford's when he comes to Santa Fe... </div>
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Then Saturday morning we went to the Farmer's Market in the Railyard and ate some more- apple epinadas, breakfast burritos, samples of fresh apples and cider. But we were mainly there to get more New Mexico red chili powder from our suppliers in Chimayo, who bring it in green lidded rubbermaid tubs and sell it in ziploc bags, 1 pound for $18 dollars. Down in the plaza, small bags sell for $25 in posh stores. </div>
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There were other good finds from the vendors outside and the holiday mercado on the other side of the tracks...</div>
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But we didn't get cheese and you need cheese to go with the glorious bread we also purchase, so then it was off to Whole Foods, where allergic to dairy, all I could was watch others delight in the cheese choices and then go off and find some hummus and salami</div>
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After our bread and cheese picnic, we headed back down to the plaza and pursued shops and museums....</div>
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including Design Warehouse, a staple for Santa Fe's infamous lit paper stars.<br />
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Then we ate at the Burrito Company, not that we were hungry yet....</div>
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So then we walked it off, the others going to more museums and me, well, I strolled up Canyon Roads, spending as much time as I liked in the many art galleries..... ahhhhhhhh! </div>
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Where even the old adobe buildings themselves are a beautiful thing to ponder, with uneven floors and narrow doors.</div>
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Then back together we went to a movie, ate popcorn, cause how can you not eat popcorn watching Daniel Craig, well, be James Bond...</div>
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Also how can you love it when Jame Bond saves the girl, at the same time hate it James Bond has to save the girl?<br />
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Well, that pondering is for another post, but after the movie we did go back to the Railyard and eat at the Second Street Brewery, where I partook of hard cider this time and Jon proved he can distinguish the subtle woody, fruity or hoppy flavors of several micro brews, presented to him in one sip taster glasses. Daughter #2 did do the driving back to the hotel. Garrett's Desert Inn, which is cheap in comparison to the other hotels down town right off the plaza.<br />
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Of course, Sunday, stuffed or not, we walked over to our and everybody else in the knows, place to go for breakfast, Pascals. Part of the fun is the waiting outside and people watching and listening to the conversations, I confess.<br />
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Inside, it is their Mexican hot chocolate drinks, cornmill blueberry pancakes, huevos rancheros, and breakfast plates that make the wait forth it....</div>
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Then we headed back to Colorado, but did stop in Cuba at the Phillip 66, at the grill, about 2 hours later for beans and onions wrapped in some more fresh made tortilla. </div>
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Headed over a few mountain passes to Vail, Colorado for my niece's wedding to a pretty neat guy, I might say. Daughter #1 and her boyfriend met us there, so it was just me, Jon, Daughter #2 and....<br />
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Uh-huh, an elk. My brother's rack I talked about <a href="http://moonflowerstudio.blogspot.com/2013/04/back-to-colorado-wtih-elk.html" style="color: #cfe2f3;">HERE</a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span>that traveled with us from Wyoming to South Dakota into Nebraska, back into Wyoming and then down the Rockies to SW Colorado, a few years ago. </div>
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This weekend it traveled again, at the request of our niece., to help decorate a patch of forest for her rehearsal dinner.</div>
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Towards Lizard Head Pass we went, slowly through the town of Rico, where word is the judge is a mean "son of a gun".</div>
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As is elk, which not only was part of the decoration, it was part of the meal. Shot by my brother in Wyoming and prepared by my mother and sister, echoing twenty five years ago.For my wedding, nestled below Longs Peak and Estes Park, elk grazed outside the church windows and we had elk stroganoff..</div>
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Wedding's merge people and families. Feasting brings people together and in my family, it seems that more often than not, that happens in the mountain. Like I said it is a Colorado thing, although now that I think about it, was there green chilies? </div>
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Many Springs ago, I attended a <a href="http://rmc.scbwi.org/"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators Rocky Mountain Chapter</span></a> workshop for Illustrators. It was an educational day, but what really stuck with me was where it was held.. at the Rocky Mountain College of Art, in Lakewood, Colorado. I snapped a bunch of photos and have never put them up, but now here they are...</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Celebrating a half a century, </span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; text-align: start;"><a href="http://www.rmcad.edu/"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">RMCAD</span></a> </span><span style="text-align: start;">moved to this gorgeous campus in 2002.</span></div>
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50 years farther back, at the turn of the century, the campus did have another purpose, it was a <a href="http://ghosttownclub.org/spotlightonhistory.html"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Tuberculosis Asylum, </span><span style="color: black;">built by generous Jewish Ladies Auxiliaries back East</span></a>, as the plaque below the water tower attest too...</div>
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The Tri Boro Dining Hall was erected by the New York Ladies Auxiliary, Long Island Division, Florence Hoberman Auxiliary of Brooklyn.<br />
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Screaming<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> "Art Deco</span>"</a> in its Architectural Style, it was sometimes hard to focus on the speakers in the glowing auditorium ...<br />
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Oh, how hard it was not add my own creativity, my ballpoint pen just laying there, but alas, not my art school and not my time....Julia Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03577906856043143102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29195570.post-38317429000624247432015-08-25T20:14:00.000-06:002015-08-25T20:19:55.302-06:00A Drive Down from Telluride...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Starting up on Dallas Divide, northeast o Telluride, these are not all the same day, but more so snapshots of the route we take so often coming home from Denver or after a day out for a drive. What do they have in common? That the light, the sky or the wildlife was so amazing, it made me stop and take notice.</div>
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In Telluride, that silver line in the box canyon....</div>
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Is this, Bridal Veil Falls, complete with a very old house and hydro-electric power.<br />
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August 7th- September 19th</div>
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