The Best-Kept Secret in Silver Lake Posted from Seattle, WA on June 9, 2023It's not well-known--in fact it's nearly a secret, but Silver Lake WA hosts the largest colony of Purple Martins west of the Mississippi. Its the creation of one man--Ken Buker, who has loved...
Posted from Seattle, WA on May 25, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVMtmf2fUiY This is Studio Rundown, May 25th, 2023. I'm really excited to keep working on this painting of Snow Geese in the Skagit. ...
Posted from seattle, WA on May 24, 2023 It's Delia's 73rd and my 72nd May. May is by far the biggest month on the calendar if you love Birds, as many come up from the South-lands to breed here in the temperate zone. In past Mays...
posted from Seattle, WA May 17th, 2023. A line from Blondie's brilliant hit song Picture This always amused me "I will give you my finest hour, the one I spent watching you shower...
posted from Seattle, WA, April 29 2023 Delia held out a long time before scheduling a trip to the Bootheel this time. This winter was one thing after another--sound familiar? We decided to chase a Red-headed Woodpecker that was spending the winter in a huge mature Cottonwood...
Posted from Seattle, WA on April 29, 2023. Delia and I made a short trip down to New Mexico in the last half of April. I'm limited to paintings that are 18 x 24 inches or less down there so I went back to work...
Posted from Seattle, WA on February 26, 2023 Ground Hog's Day is for Pennsylvania, (where I'm from). It doesn't apply here in Washington state. Delia and I found this fairly large and very pretty Western Garter Snake out and about in Ridgefield, WA on Friday, the...
Posted from Cannes, well no, actually, our basement in Seattle, WA January 31, 2023 Disruption and Deception. Deception can be a good thing perhaps in certain complicated scenarios (think surprise parties) or when you are a Pass. Disruption is quite often a good thing, as it...
Posted on January 6, 2023 from Seattle, WA, USA. I’m running an ad in the Seattle Times Sunday edition January 8, 2023 in an effort to bring attention to the stunning accomplishment of Brian Pendleton and Darchelle Worley in observing 376 species of birds in Washington...
posted from Seattle, WA on January 5, 2023 This is a movie about the paintings I'm working on now in the winter of 2023. I'll post still shots of all the paintings on this blog plus some others. . Here is the Movie: Studio Rundown! - YouTube This is Coot,...
posted December 16, 2022 from Seattle, WA We spent the first two weeks of December at my parents-in-laws place in the Bootheel of New Mexico. It takes two days to get there, and we arrived late the night of the 1st, but just before dusk....
Posted from Seattle, WA November 14, 2022 We boarded a ferry on Friday morning early. A sister ship was headed our way under the southern peaks of the Olympics and this is what it looked like. You almost are forced to admit, the Northwest has some...
First posted October 9, 2022 then revised Nov 7, from Seattle, WA OK, this doesn't look like much now but in my mind's eye it will turn into a beautiful print and poster that will challenge my 1999 painting Pike Place Flowers that has sold well...
Posted from Seattle, WA , October 9 2022 Since the beginning of June the Cave Creek Ranch in Portal, Arizona has received 24 inches of rain. Here in Seattle we have received .03 inches, although the number may be higher we may have gotten some in...
posted from Seattle, WA October 5, 2022 The ad shown above is expected to run in the A-section of the Sunday Seattle Times on October 9. Here is the text of the ad: “Washington state must be ready to meet rising air demand” wrote Seattle Times editors, exhibiting...
posted August 1 through 10 from SW New Mexico and Seattle, WA 2022 My long-time store manager Mark Moon used to always tell the tourists headed for Alaska that if they see a family of Bears, they should always make sure to pet the cubs...
Posted June 19, 2022 Some wimpy Seattleites might be complaining, I haven't heard any. It has been a bit cooler than normal, but the extra rain is being loved to death by the plants. The wetlands are full and everything is green. Rain in April May...
posted May 17, 2022 from Seattle WA Painters used to be at the top of the heap Back in the early 1860s, Painting ruled. France’s leading painter, Ernest Meisonnier, was the best known French person in the world, second only to France's leader, Napoleon III. One of...
posted May 15, 2022 from Seattle, WA For Delia and I going on a three-day birding trip with Brian and Darchelle is like those stories you hear now and then from the Plains states of people getting picked up by a Tornado and carried a long...
Posted from Seattle March 26, 2022 These Elk were just east of Seattle in the Snoqualmie Valley. As the day's light faded, they came racing out of the forest to socialize in a very large field, there were many. I did not realize that Elk bounded...
Posted from Seattle, WA on February 8, 2022 The Border Wall may live in infamy, but also in irony—a perfect example of why people should be skeptical of big government projects. We were down in extreme southwest Arizona at the San Bernardino Wildlife Refuge, one of...