tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68415131873604442492024-02-07T10:25:03.818-08:00Big Skies Painting Tripcarrie jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873372843804612246noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841513187360444249.post-78150339695020680122016-11-11T00:30:00.000-08:002016-11-13T03:10:55.117-08:00The Final Blog Post <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was a gorgeous afternoon, and I wanted one more painting from Montana, so I stopped and made this one, outside of Livingston. A guy who looked at it said it's a famous part of the range, and that locals say you can see Jesus sleeping in the mountain peaks. I can't, but he pointed out what he saw, and that made me happy. </div>
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<b>SPONSORS, THIS IS THE</b> final blog post.<br />
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I will put more photos from the trip <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bigskiestrip/" target="_blank">on our Facebook page</a>, and you are all invited to go there, check them out, let me know what see and think.<br />
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The choosing will start in the next day or so, and here's how it will work. I'll send you an email, and you can go to the <a href="http://www.jacobson-arts.com/big-skies-painting-trip-paintings" target="_blank">Big Skies Painting Trip page</a> on the <a href="http://jacobson-arts.com/" target="_blank">Jacobson Arts website </a> and pick from the available paintings. Right now, all the 10x10s are available, but as you choose them, I'll move them from "available" to "claimed." All I ask is that you make your decision as quickly as you can. I think some people are giving the paintings as holiday presents, so I'd like to wrap this all up by mid-December, if we could. </div>
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I'm hoping that everyone gets the painting that they want, but if you someone takes the painting you were dying to have, I have many options for you. </div>
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<li>I can remake the painting you wanted. It probably won't be exactly the same, but will have the same feel, same colors, same spirit. </li>
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<li>I can make a new painting for you from one of the photographs I've posted in the newsletters, on the blog or on the Facebook page. </li>
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<li>You can wait and choose any 10x10 that I make in 2017. </li>
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<li>You can have $125 off any larger painting, including paintings from this trip, or a dog portrait, or whatever you choose. </li>
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<li>You can hold off and have a sponsorship in my next trip. I already have my first sponsor for that trip, but you could be No. 2. </li>
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<li>And finally, if you're totally in love with one of the paintings, please let me know which one ASAP - before I contact you about making your choice. Like, let me know now, today, this minute! If someone chooses that painting, the one you HAVE to have, I would be OK with letting that person know that someone else is crazy about it, and asking if they would be willing to let it go and choose another. Sponsors, if you get an email like this from me, please be honest. I will keep everything anonymous, and no feelings will be hurt. If you have chosen a painting and someone else wants it, and you don't want to give it up, just let me know. There's no harm or shame in it, and I promise that the other person will end up happy. That's what I want, folks, is for all of you to thoroughly enjoy the trip and the process, and the painting you receive. </li>
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Questions? Ideas? Please let me know. My email is <a href="mailto:carrieBjacobson@gmail.com" target="_blank">carrieBjacobson@gmail.com,</a> and my phone is 860-442-0246.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Scenes from the Road</span></b></div>
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I thought you all might like to see my set-up. Sometimes I sat in the open door on the side of the van, but mostly, I stood, painting at the back of the van like this. </div>
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I think they had a few extra letters and just put them on the sign. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Final Painting </span></b></div>
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This was the last painting of the trip, and it might be the one I like the best. It's the one that shows me what I can do and hints at what is possible. I was excited when I finished it, and I sent it to Peter, and after I did, realized that I hadn't told him what it was - and he might not be able to figure it out. And then, much to my amazement, I realized that I didn't care - that even if he didn't know what it was, it still was a very cool, very beautiful painting. </div>
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It's Koko, above and, below, with Abby and Lulu. Doc and Woody are around somewhere, too, and they were just as happy to have me home as the girls were! </div>
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<br />carrie jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14873372843804612246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841513187360444249.post-63079069481202633252016-11-10T06:30:00.000-08:002016-11-10T06:30:22.606-08:00Heading East, Near Manhattan and Autumn Stream <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm home now, and I'm glad to be here. It's great to be home, to be with my husband and our dogs, to see my friends and my hometown, sleep in my own bed, eat home-cooked food, be grounded again. The trip brought me to places I loved, and to which my soul responded. It brought me to a new level of painting. It filled me with joy and excitement, adventure and accomplishment. And it left me exhausted and depleted. </div>
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But I have slept and rested and slept some more. I've snuggled and been coddled and been given the best of welcomes. By now, the van is mostly unloaded, and the paintings are in the studio (there's a photo below of all the small ones, and a few of the larger ones). I've made a larger painting from the one just below, Near Manhattan. I'm scheduled to paint on site on Wednesday with the Eastern Shore Art League. </div>
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So life is picking up again, the rhythms re-establishing, the breath of life here on the shore going in and out like the tide, like the wind, like the seasons. </div>
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I'm glad to be here, and I need to be here, but I miss the West, the huge skies, the tantalizing colors, the thrill and pull of standing, small and insignificant in that monumental landscape and painting all day, until I couldn't make one more stroke, one more blend of colors, one more rich swipe at the canvas. </div>
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It came to me that in that landscape, with the views that stretch forever, and the sky that seems impossibly large, and the hills and folds and wrinkles in the earth that seem to have been there since time immemorial, in that vast and open landscape, life itself seems infinite. Though I feel like a speck of dust in the enormity of this land, I also feel invincible, connected truly and strongly to something eternal, a voice that calls deep into my soul, and expects an eternal answer. And my soul does answer, singing its heart's song, true and free, in echo and response. </div>
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This is one of the larger pieces. Made it near Dillon, Montana.<br />
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Here are some scenes of Dillon, Montana, which looked to be a pretty cool town. T<a href="http://www.dillonmt.org/" target="_blank">he town's website </a>is having some trouble, apparently, but is still pretty interesting. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon,_Montana" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> says the town was named for the president of the Union Pacific Railroad, and that the population was about 4,000 in 2010. I'd have thought it was much more than that, judging from the downtown.<br />
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The railroad apparently chose to put a town at Dillon's location because it made sense in terms of shipping gold from the mines. The rush began in 1862 and lasted into the 1930s. There are cattle a plenty in the area, and at one point, Dillon was a major exporter of sheep. Forbes magazine named it one of America's prettiest towns in 2010. I don't know that I'd go that far, but it is a nice-looking place, with wide streets and some lovely homes and commercial buildings.<br />
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If you make the above photo larger (and sorry for the tilt, it's one of the ones that I can't seem to straighten. Iphoto shows it straight inside the program, but when I export it, it ends up tilted again. Sorry! ) But... Below the "Welcome to Dillon" sign, and around the tipped scales of justice are the words ""Unfair City Government." </div>
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A few months later, McDonald's came to town, and got the same kind of sign John said he'd been denied. He went back to city hall and says he was told that McDonald's had slipped through the cracks and it was too bad, but he couldn't have his sign. So he had the wall of his bar painted, and Beverly says she thinks it was worth every penny of the $850 it cost. </div>
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Above, lots and lots and lots of cows in Melrose. I'd wager that cows easily outnumber people.</div>
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Here's Tiny, who's best friends (well, sort of) with <a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/11/last-look-and-yellow-trees.html" target="_blank">Tanner, DOD from yesterday</a>. Here's how their relationship works: Tiny will be sitting there, minding his own business, and Tanner will come up and bark, bark, bark, bark, bark - until Tiny finally leaps up, snarls and chases Tanner around the yard or house. Then Tiny goes back to relaxing, Tanner spends some time doing something else, and then the entire cycle starts all over again. </div>
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Since I'm home, it feels right to send out a couple paintings in each of the remaining newsletters, so we can get to the choosing more quickly. I thought about posting all the rest of the paintings in this newsletter, since <a href="http://www.jacobson-arts.com/big-skies-trip" target="_blank">they're already up on the Jacobson Arts website</a>, but there are things to say about each of them, and so I am going to string this along for a little big longer.</div>
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These yellow trees, whatever they were, cottonwoods or tamaracks or aspens, they were the visual extravagance of this trip. They were the glitter, the glitz, the sparkle of this autumn landscape, and I fell in love with them. This particular grove was in Divide, on the way to Wisdom. I saw it on the trip in, and had to go back and find it on the trip out. It was so very windy, however, that I had to paint inside the van. I'm going to make a large version of this painting very soon, before the memory of the shine and flash of these trees fades.</div>
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Saw this marvelous painting, above, in a store in Wachapreague. Below, the sign on the door of the gas station: "Open til Closed / 8 or 9 to 5 or 6 / Closed when door locked." </div>
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Above, the Crossing, the only restaurant in town. Below is Shale, my wait person, who just earned her master's degree in Emergency Management and Disaster Resiliance at Tulane in New Orleans. She'd come back to Wisdom because her grandparents have a ranch just outside of town, and she'd spent nearly every summer of her life there, so it seemed like a good place to gather herself together and figure out where to look for work and start on her career. </div>
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The Wisdom area resonates in me, for reasons I can't explain or even really understand. I have the same reaction to it as I have to Wachapreague, where we live. The songs that these places sing, they are the songs that my soul hears. It has to do with the breadth of the visible landscape, the size of the sky, the colors and topography, the quality of the light and the way all this comes together. </div>
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I was delighted that my response to the area was the same this trip as the previous one, seven years ago. And it was hard for me to leave. I'm thankful that the hotel had no room for me, or, who knows, I might be there still. </div>
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As it is, I am home, in Wachapreague. I have a few more newsletters to send to you, a few more paintings to unveil. In the meantime, if you want to see all the paintings I made on the trip, you can <a href="http://www.jacobson-arts.com/big-skies-trip" target="_blank">click here to reach the Big Skies paintings page</a> on the Jacobson Arts website! </div>
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All over the West, there are bales of hay standing there, preparation for the winter. The bales - whether they're round of gray - are enormous, and the stacks they're in are bigger than any that I've seen around here. </div>
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I've never completely understood how hay bales are made, and I still don't really understand how the square ones are made, but I did find a cool YouTube video about how the round ones are made. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBcUME026w0" target="_blank">You can see it by clicking here.</a> </div>
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This scene is just outside of downtown Wisdom. The land is mostly Bureau of Land Management land, open to everyone, and there are ranches, too. Cattle from the ranches graze on the BLM land, and in many places in Wyoming, you see signs saying "Open Range," meaning that cows or horses or bison or what have you might be walking across the road at will. </div>
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Above, a couple of the businesses in downtown Wisdom. The Horn and Hook also had good espresso, and the bar next door, an excellent breakfast. People told me it has good burgers, too. Below, a longer view of downtown. </div>
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Above, the Nez Perce motel. It has eight rooms, and all were full when I was there. The place was clean and simple, with plenty of hot water and pretty good TV and internet. There's zero cell phone service in Wisdom, however. Below, the American Legion Hall.<br />
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It's Girl, who spends her time in the gas station in Wisdom. She's pretty shy, doesn't like to be petted, but enjoys hanging out in the gas station anyways.</div>
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The gray sky hung in over the land around Wisdom, Montana, and though I am a fan of the huge blue sky, the gray afternoon crept into my bones and into my palette and brought our all the rich colors of autumn. </div>
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I grew up in New England, where fall was a glory, a riot of color and heat, crimsons and deep oranges, yellows so bright they look lighted from the inside. Fall skies were blisteringly blue, clouds sharp and white, and unless the trees were blazingly colored, it wasn't a good autumn. </div>
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The West is so different. Here, near Wisdom, under a soft, gray sky, the grasses shone subtly yellow, the evergreens made a deep, dark background, and whatever those spiky bushes are - I never found anyone who knew - they added deep red splashes with purple/gray shadows at the base. I saw no fish rising, and saw only that one guy fishing, but I know what a perfect river this is for autumn fishing and, yes, for autumn painting. </div>
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The Big Hole at one of its wide points, south of Wisdom</div>
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Saw this lone guy fishing both days I was in the area. </div>
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My second day in the area, the sun did come out. </div>
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Yup, it's Koko, and we're celebrating her coming to live with us, just about a year ago. </div>
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Peter saw Koko, who was being fostered by our friend Christine Stark, and he knew she was my dog. And he knew how much I needed a dog, since the death of my Jojo. So I stopped in to Christine's house on the way back from a show, and got little Koko. </div>
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A year later, Koko is my best doggie girlfriend. She has helped bring me back to life after Jojo's death. She keeps me company, greets me with delight every time she sees me, and makes sure I take time to play, each and every day. </div>
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The sky was gray and overcast when I arrived in Wisdom, Montana, but that was OK. I brought all the sunshine I'd need. Wisdom, after all, is one of my favorite places on earth, and to me, it's beautiful in sun or rain or deep clouds, and that's what I got. </div>
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On the way from Butte, I'd seen gorgeous views, tawny, burnished fall colors, and the river shining blue and gray as it curved through the countryside. Tiny towns gave way to open spaces, and the air grew cooler and fresher by the mile. </div>
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Sometimes on painting trips, it's hard to find the right thing to paint. In the Wisdom area, there was something to paint everywhere I turned, and I spent no time looking for the better view, the better site. When I saw something I wanted to paint, I found a place to pull over, and I set up and painted. I could have spent a week right there, and still, I'd not have made all the paintings I wanted to make. </div>
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This was my first painting of the Big Hole. I love the way the river curves around the little hummock. Love the colors of the grasses and the red bushes, and how they contrast to the thick evergreens on the far bank. With this painting, I felt like the paint and the landscape were one and the same, in a way. Both spoke to me, and I heard them equally. </div>
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An eternity ago, Peter and I lived in Boise, Idaho. We fished a lot while we were out there, in small rivers and big ones, unknown creeks and world-famous fly-fishing spots. One of my favorites was <a href="http://www.flyfisherman.com/west/idaho/fly-fishing-idaho-kelly-creek/" target="_blank">Kelly Creek,</a> in northeast Idaho. </div>
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We took a trip there one fall, and we camped in a great spot in a national forest, down a long, bumpy dirt road. The river was gorgeous, clear as glass, full of west-slope cutthroat trout, and Peter and Gus (our bichon) and I had a great time camping and fishing. We went down that long, bumpy road, and at the other end, found ourselves in Montana, just outside the teeny town of Wisdom. </div>
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I fell in love with the area when we were there so many years ago, and I fell in love with it again this time. It was the start of hunting season, and fishing was still going strong, so it was a busy time for Wisdom. I could only spend one night in town, and even that was a fluke, as a hunter had caught his take and gone home early. </div>
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Above and below, the beautiful Big Hole River. Lewis and Clark decided to name the tributaries of the Jefferson River Philanthropy, Philosophy and Wisdom, but settlers changed the names to the Big Hole, Beaverhead and Ruby. But the name "Wisdom" stuck for the town, and just east of Wisdom is the Wise River, and Wise River Valley.<br />
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It wasn't until I finished the painting and continued on my way that I realized I'd been painting the Little Big Horn, a river made famous - or infamous - by the battles fought along its banks. The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought quite close to where I made this painting, in Lodge Grass, Montana. It was one of the major battles between Native Americans and whites, and in this case, the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapho defeated the U.S. troops, killing Gen. George Custer and hundreds more. <a href="https://www.nps.gov/libi/index.htm" target="_blank">To read more about the Battle of Little Bighorn, click here.</a> </div>
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We've received the <a href="http://dan-bailey.com/" target="_blank">Dan Bailey Fly Shop</a> catalog for decades. It's a pretty specific catalog, quite large and glossy - and I have to admit, had I even thought there really was a Dan Bailey Fly Shop (why didn't I think there really was one? I don't know! It always seemed like the Amazon of fly fishing), I'd have thought it would be bright and shiny and glossy, like the original Cabela's, which I visited a few years ago. </div>
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So when I called Peter and told him I'd had to stop in Livingston, Montana, and he said - No kidding, that's where Dan Bailey is! - I was delighted and surprised. And I was even more delighted and surprised to find that Dan Bailey was not a bright, shiny, glossy shop - like LLBean has become - but was relatively small and very homey, full of wood and brick, big windows, high ceilings and hardly any gloss at all. </div>
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I was even more delighted when the guy behind the cash register told me that he was an artist. And as we talked, it turned out that he was a really good artist, well-known and apparently well-selling. </div>
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He showed me photos of some of his paintings. They're fun, bright, graphical and many are very large. He told me he paints with nails and spoons, among other items. The pieces he showed me were mostly birds, but there's a variety of his work on his website, <a href="http://joefaysart.com/">JoeFaysArt.com</a>. </div>
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He lived in Los Angeles for years, and has had had shows at museums and galleries in the US and abroad. He and his wife moved to Montana after Joe spent part of a year as the artist in residence at Yellowstone. He works at Dan Bailey to get out of the studio, he told me, and also because he loves to fly-fish. And I bet he gets a good discount. </div>
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The history of the Dan Bailey Fly Shop is pretty interesting. There really WAS a Dan Bailey. In the 1930s, he was a professor at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He and his wife visited Montana on their honeymoon, and spent the next summer camping and fly-fishing in Montana. She drove the car off the road at one point, and they ended up staying in Livingston for a couple days while it was repaired. </div>
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The previous summer, Dan had found that he was unable to get fly-tying materials while he was in Montana. While the car was being repaired, he found a store in Livingston that he could rent for $20 a month, and thought that a fly shop might be a good idea. The next summer, he left teaching and moved to Montana and began the business. It took a while for his wife to join him, but she did. Some good press and some visits by famous fly fishermen helped get Dan's business off the ground, and by the mid-1950s, the shop was established, and Livingston was known as a top fly-fishing destination. <a href="http://dan-bailey.com/about/history" target="_blank">For more on the history, and on Dan Bailey's successful efforts to protect Montana's waterways, click here</a>. </div>
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The store is now run by Dan's son, John. Joe the artist told me that John was the fly-fishing advisor for the movie "A River Runs Through It," and in the photo above, you can see stills from the movie. </div>
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I had to hide from the wind as I painted this piece. I was up on an overlook above the river and the plains beside it, and I was sheltered a little by the hill that continued to rise behind me, but the wind was swirling and blasting and puffing all around me. I was able to use the van to get some relief, but it was still a struggle, and when I got as far as I'd gotten in the P in P below (painting in picture, is what I call these to myself), I realized that the wind had won, and I packed my painting in the van and headed off. </div>
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For a while, I thought I might leave the painting like this, with the black sky showing above the river, but I talked to Peter and we ended up agreeing that it was too much black, too much negative space, so I filled in the sky. What do you think? Would you have left it as it is below? </div>
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I found myself in Livingston, Montana, which charmed me completely. Its historic downtown is full of interesting-looking restaurants and galleries. The buildings have an early 20th-century feel that is comfortable and funky. And there are some great signs left from that era. </div>
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Also, Dan Bailey Fly Shop is in Livingston. We've been getting catalogs from this place for decades, and so I was thrilled to see it in person. That's it below, with the great fish sculptures over the door. More on my time in the fly shop tomorrow! </div>
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As I was setting up to paint this, in a large, sandy pull-over at the top of a mountain near Three Forks, Montana, a county police car pulled up and turned around right beside me. It was fine for me to paint there, the officer said, he was just turning around. Hunting season had just started, and he was out scouting, making sure there were no problems in his territory. </div>
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He said he'd been in law enforcement for almost 20 years, and was planning on retiring in a year or so, and going into something entirely unlike law enforcement. He didn't know what yet, but maybe it would be something like teaching. Something where he didn't have to carry a gun. </div>
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He urged me to be cautious, to keep wearing my bright orange vest, and to enjoy Montana. Wish I'd taken a photo of him. He was a nice man and a good ambassador for the state. </div>
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I painted this in the same spot as "Looking Over." It was a lovely, lonely, beautiful Montana spot. I looked out over big, steep hills covered with golden grass. In the valley was a ranch with cows and horses and lots of large equipment in the yard. Beyond the ranch, the plains seemed to run out forever, with the mountains like a wall at the edge of eternity. </div>
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I tried to find this spot on my way home, but I couldn't! I'd have made a third painting from there, if I could have located it again.</div>
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As I drove north into Montana, the mountains became more and more a part of the landscape. Snow covered their peaks, and you could tell these mountains are massive, muscular, tough. The ranges were not huge - Crazy Mountains in one direction, Pioneer Mountains in another, Tobacco Range in a third - so these were separate ranges, with different topography, different origins, probably different geography.</div>
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Even though they were far away, they began to surround the landscape, and it gave me the feeling of being very high up, very close to the sky. </div>
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Joliet was a small, quiet town in southern Montana, the kind of place that makes you wonder what people do who live there. It was pleasant and a little old, and in the middle just spectacular scenery and incredible, clear light. </div>
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Above, the Absaroka Range. I wanted to go and see these mountains, and paint them, and one of my sponsors had suggested it, but storms were blowing in at the high elevations, and I just couldn't see my way clear to go. </div>
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Here are more mountains, this time near Livingston, Montana. I painted these on my return trip.</div>
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This time, the DOD is a couple of chickens! And I'm very proud of this. One sponsors asked me to look for a painting of chickens, and I promised I would, but wondered if I'd really be able to locate a chicken or two out west. Lo and behold, chickens! The full photo is below. </div>
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As I'm writing this, I am heading home, and it looks like I will probably get home in time for Halloween. It's a little confusing to be posting paintings that I was making as I was heading to Wisdom, but it's OK. So for at least a couple days, I'm going to send more than one painting in each newsletter. </div>
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I made this painting on Tongue River Canyon Road, the day after I painted "<a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/red-afternoon.html" target="_blank">Red Afternoon</a>." That day, the "Red Afternoon Day," I had been planning on leaving Sheridan, Wyoming and heading to Montana. But I had such an amazing painting day, the colors were so beautiful and exciting, the landscape so inspiring, I stayed another night in Sheridan. That night. I saw this painting in my mind. I understood what I wanted to paint, how I wanted to see it, how I could make the trees look like flames, how the painting would feel. I went back the next morning, found a perfect spot to pull over, and painted, fast and sure of myself, before the rain came. </div>
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I drove to Red Lodge, Montana, and as I mentioned in a previous newsletter, didn't find it particularly compelling. It was nice enough, but not what I wanted to see or paint. The road to the town, however, was lovely, and vibrant and alive in the brilliant afternoon sun. </div>
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It's often difficult to find a good, safe place to pull off the road and paint. In New England, and the East in general, there are ditches along nearly every road. There are ditches in the West, too, but there are also regular pull-in spots, designed, I think, for farm and ranch equipment. These are just long enough to get my van into safely, and I've used them whenever I've found them. </div>
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Near Red Lodge, I found a huge flat space belonging to the state Department of Transportation, I think. My guess is that they store sand there, perhaps, and park snowplows and big pieces of equipment there in the winter. But when I was there, it was empty, and lined with beautiful, bright yellow trees. </div>
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Yes, where there are trees in Wyoming and Montana, they are brilliant yellow, with tints of orange and green, shimmering and shining in the fall sun. The rest of the land is beautifully colored this October, if more subtle, less brash than the tamaracks and cottonwoods. </div>
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It's Tuffy, whom I met at a hotel near Red Lodge. His human had come to Montana from Oregon, and brought Tuffy along. The dog had belonged to the man's mother, who had died. Tuffy was missing an eye when the mother got him from the shelter, but it didn't seem to faze the dog in the least. </div>
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When I set out for the West in October, I really didn't know what to expect in terms of color, scene, foliage. I knew that, no matter what, there would be amazing landscapes to see and paint - the mountains, hills and sky out here have always been enough for me, no matter what the season. </div>
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Even though we lived in Idaho for a few years, I either didn't notice or didn't remember the colors being as rich and mesmerizing as I am finding on this trip. People I've asked say this is a good autumn for color, but not out of the ordinary. Maybe Boise was different? Maybe I just wasn't paying attention. I was working nights then, and honestly, didn't spend much time outside. </div>
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Saw this house on the way to Red Lodge, Montana. I will surely paint this in upcoming weeks! </div>
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Here's downtown Red Lodge. It's a small, wealthy-looking town, with the feeling of a ski town. It was very pretty, very upscale, but had that pheeling of phoniness, so I phled less phabricated places. </div>
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The hanging wall in my van, early in the trip. I'll post a more current photo soon. Pretty much every available inch in my van is covered with paintings right now. I had contemplated bringing Koko, my dog, and I am so very glad I didn't! </div>
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As I was packing up after making my final painting on the Tongue River Canyon Road, I saw another dog running along beside another car. By now, I understood that this was the way the people exercised their dog. I was on one side of the van, and the dog apparently stopped its run to investigate the van, but it was on the other side. By the time I came around, the car had stopped and the dog had taken off. I began to take photos, at which point, a passenger got out of the van and started posing for me!</div>
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It's hard to describe the feeling that began to possess me at about this point in the trip. It was as if painting had unlocked itself to me, and what had opened was a door that I'd suspected was there, but had never seen. Suddenly, not only did I see the door, but it opened for me, and I was invited to step in to a place where painting freedom surrounded me. </div>
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At the same time, I began to feel that my physical self was even farther from the process than ever. I understand that this sounds a little crazy, but in my relatively short painting life, the best paintings I've made have been the ones in which I have felt like a vessel or a faucet, like a thing that art flows through, rather than a physical being who is thinking and planning and plotting with every stroke. </div>
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This has been absolutely exhilarating, totally thrilling, and also frightening. Every morning, I've gone to the van, wondering if I'd look at the previous day's paintings and realized that I'd been duping myself, that they really weren't as good as I'd thought. I've been thankful, every morning, that the paintings have stood up. I've been frightened, every day, that I wouldn't be able to paint like this again, and again, I've been thankful, every day, that I've been able to sustain it. </div>
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<b>THE TONGUE RIVER</b> runs from the Yellowstone River through Wyoming and Montana. It starts in the Big Horn Mountains, and empties into the Yellowstone at Miles City, Montana. </div>
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According to Wikipedia, the river runs through land where bison once ruled. The watershed includes parts of the Cheyenne and Crow reservations, and the Big Horn and Custer National Forests. The river's name derives from its name in Cheyenne. </div>
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Winter snow pack from the Big Horn Mountains feeds the river in the spring, and groundwater from springs in the drainage basin feed it in the early summer; it generally dries up in late summer. People I spoke with said that this year, rainfall has been scarce, and many of the smaller rivers and creeks have dried up. The Tongue River seemed to be flowing well, though it was not high. Fishermen I talked to said that recent rainstorms have made a big difference in river levels. </div>
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The Tongue River figures in the history of several Native American tribes, fur traders and mining operations. It's considered a good fishing river, in many spots. </div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">Hanging Woman Creek is a tributary of the Tongue River, joining at Birney, Montana.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Crazy Woman Creek is a tributary of the Powder River - and ran alongside the road where I painted in Crazy Woman Canyon. </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Swimming Woman Creek runs from the Snowy Mountains in Montana, into Careless Creek. </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Dirty Woman Creek starts east of Rock Springs, Montana, and ends east of Angela, Montana. </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Kill Woman Creek runs from Fort Peck Reservoir, draining into the Missouri River, just east of Herman Point. </li>
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Maybe on some painting trip, I will visit all the "woman rivers" I can find!</div>
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On this trip, whenever I've asked people where I should paint, what I might miss that they, as residents of the area treasure, I've been sent to beautiful places, stunning places, places that take my breath away. Believe me, this isn't always the case! </div>
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A woman I talked with in the Cowboy Cafe in Sheridan sent me to the Tongue River Canyon, and what a delight that was! I painted there one afternoon, and went back to paint there again the next day. </div>
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It's just outside Sheridan, near the metropolis of Dayton. You turn just before the town, and drive down a dirt road. Beautiful meadows line one side of the road, and the Tongue River runs along the other side. Again, I didn't go all the way in to the canyon, but stopped where the road narrowed - there was already so much to paint, I was overwhelmed. </div>
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In addition to the beautiful homes, lovely horses, expansive fields and meadows, the autumn light caught a bright, chaotic tangle of trees and underbrush and brought out their colors, copper and brass and the shimmering orange-green-yellow of the tamarack and cottonwood trees. </div>
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It was breath-taking, and it brought me this painting, which is a true breakthrough piece in my painting life. It's hard for me to describe what makes this piece so special, but I can say that I held the knife loosely and I saw the colors and the bits and splashed of light more clearly than I ever have. I painted this small piece with a rush of energy and abandon that I've never known, and it is still thrilling to me. I hope you like it! </div>
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The Cowboy Cafe was a really fun place for breakfast! And the breakfast was big enough that I had it for lunch, too, which is always a nice bonus. Pleasant wait staff, happy customers, good food at reasonable prices - a pleasant place to eat in downtown Sheridan, Wyoming. </div>
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"Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns the world away into a dancing, shimmering heat haze that reflects the crystal blue sky, literally blurring the line between heaven and earth." </div>
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When I went back to my little spot in Big Horn, Wyoming, to finish <a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/remembrance-of-things-past.html" target="_blank">"Remembrance of Things Past,"</a> I decided to paint the storm, partly from the photograph I'd taken, and partly from the landscape I was seeing. </div>
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Storms out West are pretty intense. I'd imagine the same sort of thing happens when you're way out on an ocean - you can see the weather coming, clearly, for miles and miles and miles. It's fascinating, and a little scary, a little unsettling, to watch the black clouds and the downstreams of rain heading toward you. </div>
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I've never seen a town with the kind of commitment to public art that Sheridan, Wyoming, has. On most of the corners of the main downtown street - and many side streets, as well - there are beautiful, fascinating, fun, lovely sculptures. They bring the downtown alive in a way I've never seen. </div>
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According to <a href="http://www.sheridanpublicarts.com/" target="_blank">Sheridan Public Arts,</a> the program began with an idea and a group of interested citizens, in 1992. They wanted to create a public place for art, art fairs and the like. In 2001, the Grinnell Plaza project began, funded by donations, grants and the city. The mayor at the time, Jim Wilson, formed a public arts committee whose mission was to promote the Grinnell Plaza project, and choose works of art for it and for other parts of the city. </div>
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The committee eventually chose eight sculptures. In the years since, a 1 percent for art optional sales tax, and ongoing funding from individuals and organizations has led to Sheridan having 59 permanent sculptures and many others that are on loan to the city and available for purchase. </div>
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One person I spoke with said that the Mayor Wilson was absolutely obsessed with the sculpture program - and it shows. It's a delight to walk the streets and see the amazing, varied and lovely pieces of sculpture in the downtown. It bring life, vitality and richness to the downtown! Wish every downtown did it. I think I will bring the idea up in Wachapreague when I get home. </div>
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I was midway through this painting when <a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/tucked-away.html" target="_blank">the storm blew in, with all its rain and hail, for hours and hours</a>. The next day, I came back to the same spot and finished the painting, with that day's mountains and the previous day's sky. </div>
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I'm writing this several days in advance. I've traveled hundreds of miles and made many more paintings, and I can tell you that this piece and the previous one began a process of unlocking my painting in ways I'd hoped for but never quite imagined. The sky in this painting and the trees in the previous painting (<a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/tucked-away.html" target="_blank">Tucked Away</a>) have freed me from bounds I never knew were holding me down. </div>
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We got to talking, and he said he had been a rodeo rider for 40 years. He rode bucking horses (that's what he called them, not "bucking broncs") and he had loved it. He had broken a few bones, he said, but not many, and had never spent a night in the hospital, unlike many riders. </div>
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Don was one of 10 kids, growing up on a ranch in North Dakota. His dad was a rodeo cowboy, and Don had loved it from the moment he was able to participate. The photos below are him riding, which he started when he was 14. He won his first contest at 17, and his first trophy buckle at 18. It was a hard life, but one he loved, and he pursued even after he was married and had kids. He did go back to the amateur level, at that point, but he kept riding. He said he rode more than 1,300 bucking horses, competing in 36 states and five Canadian provinces. At one point, he was ranked 17th in the world.</div>
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Rodeo cowboys will often ride in more than one rodeo in a week, driving all night to get from one to the next. They sometimes see the same horses in different rodeos, Don told me, adding that most bucking horses only are ridden once every three or four weeks. They're treated very well, he said, and kept healthy. </div>
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Still, I have some trouble with rodeos, the same sort of trouble I have with zoos, aquariums and horse races. I don't begrudge anyone their enjoyment of these - I used to love all of them! But I'd rather see the horses out in the fields, bucking and running and rolling in the grass, or even being ridden to corral a herd or guide them on their way. </div>
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The first time I saw this, on the rainy day, I thought maybe the dog was chasing the car, or had escaped from the yard and this is how his human got him back. The second time I saw it, the next day, I realized that this is how the dog's human gets him his exercise! I saw another person doing the same thing, 20 miles away, a few days later. </div>
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I set out for Big Horn, Wyoming, after seeing a billboard advertising a western art museum there, <a href="http://thebrintonmuseum.org/" target="_blank">The Brinton Museum</a>. A guy at a fly shop in downtown Sheridan also said it was beautiful, so it seemed like a good destination, and not too far, either. AND paved roads, which was especially good, as my paintings weren't drying quickly, and were (and still are) hanging all over the inside of the van. </div>
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Big Horn is quite lovely. Lots of big fields, rivers, bright autumn foliage. Plenty of deer, too, singularly unimpressed with the people driving by them. </div>
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I saw wonderful Western art by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, whom I've heard of, and amazing portraits - many in crayon - by a painter named Winold Reiss, whom I'd never heard of. </div>
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Reiss was born in Germany, and came to the US in 1913. He wanted to dedicate his art career to painting Native Americans, and spent a large portion of his life living and painting in the Blackfeet Confederacy in Montana. <a href="http://winoldreiss.org/life/index.htm" target="_blank">To learn more about him, click here.</a></div>
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It's been a while since I've been fishing, but when I did it, I loved it. I almost brought my fly rod, but I really needed to be painting, not fishing, sigh... Peter is a wonderful fisherman, and so when I saw this shop, I thought I should go in. </div>
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It was a beautiful place, and the owner, above left, introduced me to his best fly-tier, above, right, and talked him into giving me some flies. Fun! Also, the owner would like to sell some of my paintings in the shop, so that's exciting - and also a good excuse to visit Sheridan again. </div>
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I was in a Starbucks in Sheridan when this woman came in and got a puppaccino for her dog. I asked it I could take a photo, and she invited me to pet him. She told me he loves his puppaccinos (basically whipped cream in a cup) and helps her navigate through her days. She was not completely blind, but very sight-impaired. They visit Starbucks almost every day. </div>
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I'd already made two paintings out near Crazy Woman Canyon, and I was tired. But I came to this scene on the road back to Buffalo, and I had to paint it. The October afternoon light was absolutely golden. The big tree at the side of the road simply glowed. The yellows, oranges and browns were as rich as anything I'd ever seen, and so I stopped and set up and went to work. </div>
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My fatigue vanished as I painted. Cars drove by, birds flew along, a dog ran down a driveway, and all of it was just a hum, a quiet background noise drowned by the intense beauty I was seeing. With light like this, you have to paint fast. You have to be focused and certain and speedy, or the resplendent afternoon will fade into early dusk and take the colors and the glow with it. </div>
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The day was overcast and threatening, and it seemed like a good time to head north, hard as it was to leave the beautiful Buffalo area. I'd been thinking of heading into the mountains, but the weather experts said that what was rain at this elevation would be snow higher up. So I took the flat road to Sheridan and enjoyed the drive.<br />
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Above, a camper that sheepherders use. This is the traditional shape of the camp wagon; we used to see them often when we lived in Idaho. I found an interesting page detailing the history and attitudes of the times toward sheepherders. <a href="http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/sheep2.html" target="_blank">Click here to check it out.</a> </div>
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I've seen the "Longmire" series on Netflix, and have loved it. While I was in Buffalo, I bought the first Longmire book, and I'm reading it now. It's so cool to recognize places that he uses in the book. For instance, The Red Pony (and continual soiree) is c<a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/deadwood-road-rock-face.html" target="_blank">learly the bar/restaurant at Spotted Horse! </a> And the Log Cabin motel, where a couple suspects stay, is the <a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/nestled-in.html" target="_blank">Blue Gables Motel,</a> where I stayed. Cool! And judging from the description in the book about where Walt lives, my guess is it's in Recluse. </div>
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I haven't gotten far enough to know whether Crazy Woman Canyon will figure in to the story, but if I were Craig Johnson, I think I'd be likely to have someone find a body there, maybe even in one of the crevasses in this painting! </div>
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It was a challenge, a fun one, to make this piece. Rocks are not easy for me, but like so much other stuff, the more I do it, the easier it becomes. The sun was clear, there wasn't much wind, and the rocks and road were warm and summery. Hard to believe it was October in Wyoming. </div>
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Here's another donkey, hanging out with a horse. I don't know if the donkeys are protection, or just buddies for the others.<br />
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The lovely owner of the KOA in Buffalo suggested that I drive into Crazy Woman Canyon, one of her favorite places. She showed me photos of it, and I agreed with her - and so, off I went. </div>
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To get there, you drive a quite long, pretty bumpy dirt road (washboard-type bumps) that brings you past beautiful fields, big grazing cows, lovely farms - guess they're called "ranches" out here. I had to drive slowly, as I have lots of paintings hanging from the inside of the van, and that was fine with me. </div>
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But as I got deeper and deeper toward the canyon, the road got more and more narrow, and more and more bumpy. I saw a place where I could pull over and turn around, and so I did. Near the turnaround, I saw this small house nearly camouflaged by brush and the shared colors of the rock behind it. </div>
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I spent a night in one of the cabins at the Blue Gables Motel in Buffalo, and it was lots of fun. The cabin was cute, in an older, 1940s kind of way that I like very much. The owners were just great, especially Karen, who tended to everything while her husband and son were off hunting. We talked and laughed and shared our love of dogs, and though I wanted to take her photo, she begged me not to (you can just see her left shoulder in the photo below.)</div>
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Here's Ruger, who hangs out in the Blue Gables office. He has his own chair and ottoman, and he's often looking over the counter with the newspaper, above. </div>
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This is Ruger's brother. I can't remember his name, but he's a wild dog, part pug, part Boston terrier. He's the boss dog, even though Ruger could bite him in half. He doesn't stop, chasing the ball and thrusting it at an innocent visitor, over and over and over. What a nut! </div>
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After the van door s<a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/storm-over-mountains.html">macked me in the hip and nearly ruined my painting</a>, I decided to lay a little low until the wind died down. Happily, the human who owns <a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/storm-over-mountains.html">Ruger, recent Dog of the Day</a>, hired me to make a painting of him, so I occupied myself with that during the course of the day. </div>
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In the afternoon, the wind diminished, and though the clouds stayed thick and low, the evening light snuck beneath them and turned the landscape pewtery and brassy, glowing. I found a lovely scene by a small reservoir just outside of town, and had a nice time painting in the rich evening light. </div>
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Above, my painting in the landscape. Below, another view of the scene. </div>
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Saw this cool camper as I was coming down the hill from my <a href="http://bigskiespaintingtrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/storm-over-mountains.html" target="_blank">abortive trip to the Paradise Guest Ranch</a>. I've never seen anything like it. I can tell it's European, or at least I think it is. Do any of you know exactly what this is? </div>
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I went into a few stores in Buffalo, including a sports store. Thought I should include this fly display for my husband, who's at home dealing with dogs and dreaming of fishing. </div>
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I had a great spot at the KOA in Buffalo. It was a lovely KOA, owned by a nice couple who'd bought it a little less than a year ago. Lisa was as sweet as she could be, helping me get settled, showing me around, being kind. The place was clean and quiet and safe - what more could anyone want? Well, a good night's sleep, though that had nothing to do with the KOA. Camping is going to be out of the question for the near future, as I need all available van space for drying paintings! </div>
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For a few years now, the rest of the Cooper side of the family has spent part of the summer at dude ranches. Peter and I are always invited, but we can't go because summertime is when I earn the bulk of my money. Much as I'd like to, I just can't spend two or three weeks away from painting and shows! </div>
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So I turned back toward town, and pulled into this rest area to paint the storm moving in over the Big Horn Mountains. It was windy - it's often windy in Wyoming - and there were also huge gusts. At one point, the van door slammed me in the hip, and my table and paints went over. Luckily, I grabbed this painting and kept it from falling. </div>
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<b>FANS OF '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmire_(TV_series)">LONGMIRE</a>,' </b>a series of books by Craig Johnson and a television series now available on Netflix, will recognize the Busy Bee, and "downtown Durant," a/k/a Buffalo, Wyoming. A small part of the show is shot in Buffalo, and the other half in New Mexico, around Angel Fire and Eagle Nest. According to a hotelier who works as a county sheriff's deputy, it costs less to film in New Mexico, even though it means that the show has to have two full shooting sites. The people of Buffalo - who already hold "Longmire Days" in July - would embrace the idea of the show being filmed entirely in their town and county, he said. </div>
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At any rate, Sheriff Walt Longmire, the depressed and tenacious hero, often dines at the Busy Bee (always asking the waitress to "Give me the usual"), so it was a huge thrill to have breakfast there myself! It's a small place, and was crowded. I had to sit at the counter with a couple older cowboys. At one time, a table for two cleared out and I moved off the uncomfortable stool and over to the table. A moment or so later, two women came in, and it was clear that if I didn't move, they couldn't be seated. So I went back to the counter - no biggie; I'd already been sitting there for at least 20 minutes, waiting for my breakfast. Later, when I went to pay, I found that the women had paid for my breakfast! Nice. </div>
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The mirror at the Busy Bee shows the two cowboys with me at the counter, as well as some of Craig Johnson's books. He still lives in town; wish I'd been able to meet him! </div>
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Here I am in front of the Longmire for Sheriff Headquarters. The shop was supposed to be open on Friday from 4-6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wasn't open any of those hours. The owner probably went hunting, was what most folks around town thought. Oh, well. </div>
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<b>THE DOG OF THE DAY</b> is Ruger, a 14-month-old lab/catahoula mix who lives at the Blue Gables cabin motel, where I spent one night. Ruger and I fell in love a little, but I suspect it wasn't anything special. I think he pretty much loves everyone. He's a big, slightly porky guy who is just learning to hunt. His humans are very nice folks - more about them, and Ruger's brother, in a future posting! </div>
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I drove around a curve and the land opened up, yellow-green hills in front, red mountains in the middle, blue snow-covered peaks far behind. The road rolled down, and just where a house sat, curved away to the east. It was breathtakingly beautiful - and absolutely, completely silent. Yes, a few times an hour, a car went by, but that was it. </div>
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I'd just started this painting when a truck from Minnesota pulled in to the driveway where I was painting. Three hunters got out, and came over to have a look. They didn't have much to say about the painting, but we chatted. They were there to hunt antelope, and so far, the antelope were winning. I said a silent hurrah. I have nothing against hunting, but I'll choose the animal every time. </div>
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They took out binoculars and one peered off into the distance. Apparently, just beyond a small herd of cows, there was a larger herd of antelope. The one guy would walk down there, and herd the herd up toward the other guys. He set off, and the other two went and sat in the truck. </div>
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In a while, it occurred to me that they might be planning on doing their shooting near where I was painting. And again, no problem with hunting, but I don't want to see it happen. So I went over and asked them, and they said no, that wasn't the plan. In a few more moments, they drove off. </div>
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I was nearing the end of the painting when they came back. The antelope had won again, they said, and they were going to call it a night - but they wanted to see the painting. So it all worked out OK, especially for the wary, wise and incredibly agile antelope. </div>
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Above, the Powder River outside Buffalo. Below, the driveway speaks to what must be a pretty gorgeous ranch. The trees glowed in the afternoon light. </div>
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This fierce fellow was defending his gigantic motor home in a parking lot near Wall Drug. He barked maniacally, his entire 9-pound body shaking with fury that I'd parked beside his RV. </div>
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