And the cabin around Thanksgiving time.

And a few more.

Starting to catch up

Life has not allowed for much of this lately, but here are some catch ups.

Will be back.

Between being off for Thanksgiving and a family emergency health concern, I have been unable to post this week.
Should have something back up this week.
Keeping at it.
See ya soon.

Must have been dreaming about next years trip. . . .

Loch Lomond.

11/17 and 11/18

A little happier with these.

11/14 and 11/15

11/12 and 11/13

Where last weeks went well, this weeks were a struggle.

I guess I had heavier lead.

11/11/09

11/10/09

11/9/09

11/8/09

11/7/09

Sorry for the delay. I am doing the sketchs, but not getting the time to scan. So. . . here is a week of catch ups.

I like the first three alot, kinda getting to what I am aiming for.

All alone in the big field 11/6/09

And Wed. 11/4/09

This one actually came up under English Oak?????

Neat tree, but set on a barren brown field.

Are there any barren clay brown fields in the UK?

11/3/09

11/2/09

Sunday 11/01/09

This is my favorite this week.

Sat 10/31/09

Kinda like this one, a little.

Two and half hour tree

Photo turned out ok of this one. Did a pencil sketch on 10/19, and here is the painting of the same. Finished it up last night.

Today's QS

Wed's QS and tree

Rainy day drive

Days like today make we wish I had a better camera. Oh, well, we do what we can.

Today's QS and trees

10/26/09 tree

tree 10/25/09

Kansas barn 10/24

10/23/09 tree

10/22/09 tree

One more from our trip

almost a New England kinda scene.

Our weekend

Yea, I have been keeping up with my trees and they will be back up tomorrow.
But for something else. . .
We did our annual B&B float this past weekend, returning the the B&B we used our first time.
We did however do a different section of the river, ending at the B&B, which is always fun.
There were only two couples of us this year, John and Diane and us.










John.











The town.

We paddled to Bonnets Mill Mo after about 8 miles down stream on the Missouri with about 1.5 miles upstream on the Osage.
While we were running our shuttle after our float, a group of MG's kept coming in. Really nice cars.








Nice Car!











Our lodgings.
This one may end up a painting.


We had great weather Sat. with a little rain Sunday.
Good catfish and ribs at Mike's in town.
Party tub in our room.
And a great breakfast and company.

Wednesday's tree and QS

Lock-keepers house.

Iowa Barn. . . . today's tree

And today's. . .

One more for Sunday.

Foggy field

Number two

Gettin' back on track, three quick pencil sketch's coming up.

All caught up to today.

Friday, Sat. Sunday

This should bring me up to last thursday or so.

I like the bottom one.