Category Archives: art
High contrast
The tax collector
Île d’Orléans autumn day
The Alaska Range
“The Alaska Range,” oil on canvas board, by Carol L. Douglas Neither rain nor snow nor threat of sleep deprivation shall keep us from our appointed rowdiness. Mary and I coined that as our trip’s slogan. It’s insane. Mary has a cold and I’m feeling an irksome scratchiness to the throat. We can afford […]
Above the Arctic Circle
Finding your style
The passing parade
Nothing new under the sun
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun,” Solomon intoned in the great wisdom book, Ecclesiastes. The cosmic joke is that, 5000 years later, we are still frequently surprised by that realization. I was reminded of this yesterday while […]
Changing nature
As I’ve wandered around painting recently, residents have talked to me about eastern spruce dwarf mistletoe and what it’s done to their trees. I was surprised to read that it is native to New York as well as Maine, since I’ve never seen those characteristic “witches’ brooms” on trees in my natal state. I browsed […]