More Paintings from John Day Fossil Beds
One balmy evening in early September, we found ourselves on a tiny dirt track off Route 19, just south of the Interpretive Center at the John Day Fossil Beds. The evening was glorious, the painting went easily, the moon rose,
More Paintings from John Day Fossil Beds
[image]A few days ago, Jer posted his photos of what we've been calling "Sarah's Red Hills." Sarah Herve, the park ranger who supervised my residency, lives off the grid way out and beyond; to get to her place, one goes up Dick Creek
All Shades Of Green In Wide, Brown Land
"Even John Howard, that devotee of the tepid, is warming to the idea. future over the old neocon / Committee on the ever Present Danger one any day. help power the post fossil fuel era by providing us with a supply of helium 3.
Fossil fun
My post-defense vacation included a trip to Eastern Oregon to witness the most complete range of Tertiary fossils found anywhere - the John Day Fossil Beds. Rocks ranging from 44 million to 7 million years old contain an amazing
Timberline Lodge and John Day Fossil Beds - Day 3
We aimed east to the Carno section, one of three, of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Smoke from the forest fires hung in the air. The drive was long and towns were sparse. We stopped in Shaniko, almost like a ghost town,
Day Seven: The Boise / Oregon Ghost Town Tour
One of the highlights of the eastern Oregon high desert country is the John Day Fossil Beds. The entire area covers 14000 acres, but there are four primary areas you can stop at and explore. On this day, we stopped at two of them.
Unschooling Voices: December Edition Unschooling
A couple of months later, we took a fabulous weeklong camping trip through an area of Oregon that surrounds several areas of the John Day Fossil beds. We found fossils, camped in the desert, swam in the John Day river, mined our own
Finale and All That
During the month at the John Day Fossil Beds, I was painting quite small pictures -- none larger than 13 x 18" and some as small as postcards. My pleine aire equipment and our Honda sedan couldn't handle anything larger than this.
Good Planets - 11/25/2006
"The landscape was photographed in the Painted Hills Unit at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon -- Sept 2006." "The Brown Pelicans were photographed along the California coast not too far from Patrick's Point State Park.
Desert Road
Desert RoadJohn Day Fossil Beds, John Day, OR. (September 1st, 2005
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