Friday’s post got me thinking about other places where you can see (and sketch) wildlife that’s totally unfazed by your presence. And since we’re coming up on the beginning of the Year of the Sheep, the Badlands zoomed right to the top of the list today.
Category: Animal-Vegetable-Mineral
Baa ram eweBadlands National Park, SD
Sealed with a kissSan Simeon, CA
Posted 9 years ago
I’ve never done Highway One in the summer, so I’ve never seen it the way most people do—choked with tourists and traffic. I prefer to see the coast highway in the winter, where the only teeming hordes to contend with are those of the pinniped variety. The elephant seal breeding ground on the Big Sur… More
In seasonCentral and Napa valleys, CA
Posted 9 years ago
One thing I always look forward to about driving to California is watching the seasons change as I go. It never ceases to amaze me that you can go from winter… …to spring, sometimes in the course of a single hour. These two sketches were done on the same day, just over 60 miles apart…. More
Catch of the eonNewport, OR
Posted 9 years ago
Loch HiawathaMinneapolis, MN
Posted 9 years ago
The mammoth of MargateLucy the Elephant, Margate City, NJ
Posted 9 years ago
We’ve all heard of the elephant in the room, but how many people can say they’ve been in a room in an elephant? Well, last week I finally joined the ranks of those who can. There are probably thousands of roadside attractions in the U.S.—some (like the Corn Palace, Paul & Babe, the Blue Whale… More
Say hello to my little friend
Posted 9 years ago
Lumberjacks for a dayOlympic National Forest, WA
Posted 9 years ago
Every year the Tailor and I go to the mountains with our friends to pick out and cut our own Christmas trees. Some people, when I tell them this, look at me like I have three heads and ask, “Why don’t you just go to a tree farm?” Well, sure, it’s more work (and a… More
Decking the hallsTacoma, WA
Posted 9 years ago
When we head to the mountains on Sunday to get our tree, the holiday decorating will officially begin. At our old house, most of our decorating focused on the mantel—since we don’t tend to go overboard with that sort of thing anyway, sometimes it was the only place that hinted at anything festive. At our… More