This past weekend marked some significant events in my life:
June 19
= the 61st anniversary of my dear late parents’ wedding (1954)
June 21
= the 83rd anniversary of my sainted mother’s birth (1932)
= the first day of summer (always a glorious day)
= Father’s Day (yet another day to think of and celebrate my favorite patriarch)
And what better way to celebrate and honor these all than by rising before sun-up, loading my pack and good pup in the car, journeying to the high mountains hours before the crowds, ambling down a clear gushing mountain stream, settling in among the aspen, and, with a full and happy heart, painting the scene before me?
No. Better Way!
plein air painting among the high mountain aspen above santa fe. look carefully to spy my studio mascot.
summer solstice aspens – santa fe, oil on panel (en plein air), 8″ x 10″, by dawn chandler