Archive for the 'Field Notes' Category

Deep Winter

I have a deep dark secret: I enjoy suffering. It’s taken me years to realize this, but there it is. The worse the weather, the happier I am. Here is a fine example:

The sun is now shining, but notice my paint box. It has drifted over in the two hours since […]

Road Trip

I thought you might enjoy a sampling of studies that I did back in October. I’d intended to travel all the way to Zion National Park, but after a late start I called Robert Moore, a friend and mentor who lives near the Idaho/Utah border. So it was that I stayed at Robert’s […]

Experiential Realism

September in Yellowstone is all about fighting and sex. It’s a great spectacle: testosterone in overdrive. Bulls fight, harass cows, strut, bugle, sleep, and fight some more. They even piss on themselves and roll in piss-mud wallows to make home-brewed cologne. Somehow this impresses the cows.
Much of this happens right in Mammoth, a […]