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These scene is a view from the east side of the lake looking West back toward the beach. It’s later summer with some beach showing and some yellow almost dried flowers in the large granite slopes on the eastern side of the lake.

The inland coast of the Bay Area is filled with farms and rolling coastal hills before reaching a high 2000 foot section before coming into the SF bay area. San Gregorio is a one store /post office town about 1 mile from coast.

At about 9000 feet on Hwy 108 sonora pass is a un-marked trailhead to Blue Lake and Blue Canyon. This steep 1500 foot ascent in 2 miles goes up to a blue often icy lake above tree line. This is one blue Blue Canyon painting as you start the hike around 9000 feet.

Highway 395 on the eastern side of California is an endless road of paint-able images. On one side you the steeper side of the Sierra Nevada range that peaks out at 15,000 + feet near Whitney with flat green and brown hills below. Summer is short in these dry and tougher areas. In the past,Continue reading “Hwy 395”

One of my favorite places in California is Yosemite National Park. Although the valley can often be busy with tourists, I still find it one the most beautiful and fun places to go, especially in the summer or late summer when the rivers run at level to enjoy safely. I’ve hiked and climbed half domeContinue reading “Yosemite”

Just north of Half Moon Bay is a busy community that has a local ocean harbor can Princeton. This is a view of the harbor and the jetty that goes a long way out into the ocean making for a self made bay area.

Today I visited the coast again looking for new views to paint. This view was this set of dramatic almost white vertical cliffs looking north on Hwy 1. The fog was starting to hide the distant coast but a section of the coast was clear.

Every turn on this road is a classic northern California coast inland view of rolling hills, trees, farms, and vistas. This painting was based on the just a regular turn in the road on Stage Road, North of San Gregoria about 1/2 mile before you intersect with Hwy 1.

A few years back I was attending a dinner social event on the cooler coast evening and we had a campfire with a full moon rising from the west in the early evening. This painting is based on that moment near San Gregorio on Hwy 1.

A few years back I traveled to the Cinque Terre coastal region of Italy. I went there in late September after the big crowds but water and weather was still warm. We stay in Monterossa for 5 days while we hike and explored the 5 (cinque) different coastal cities. These paintings are based on imagesContinue reading “Cinque Terre, Italy”