RMW Ramblings

  Rockford Summer Summer is here and so are fireworks.  The Hagley Museum has an annual firework display that is visible from Rockford Park. Rockford Summer is a watercolor tinted scratchboard depiction.

  Hazy Morning   This morning  the air was hazy from the Canadian wild fires.  Even then there was a beauty,   The color bands add a moire effect from our screen windows.

  The Monarch Approaches Queen Anne  Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches.

  Greek Festival   We missed Wilmington's Greek Festival last week. Here I joined ancient Greek dancers with Festival folk dancers in a commissioned painting.  

  Mariposa Mariposa is an  8 x 10 inch Southwestern themed  painting of an imaginary Indian woman.  I painted the frame turquoise and  decorated it with copper tacks.

  Bicycling in Wilmington The 15th annual Wilmington Grande Prix is this weekend, a  US Cycling Club event, part of their national tour.  The professional race is accompanied by local bike events and activities.  In years past Wilmington was a stop on the Tour duPont, later the Tour Du Trump. Back in the 1970s during one of the oil crises, I rode my bike to work, a dangerous and sweaty activity on the hilly local roads.  Here is a biker caricature I  did at the time...

  More California Poppies A Berkeley Panorama On a recent post ( https://rmw-ramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/california-poppies.html ) there was a painting of California poppies and Mt. Shasta.  An earlier painting with foreground poppies, Fiat Lux, is this panorama overlooking Berkeley, California.   Fiat Lux is the motto of the University of California, Berkeley.  The painting is on a panel that I inset in a bookshelf/peg-strip at our cottage.