by Dawn Chandler | Sep 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
[This the second of a two-part series. Read the moreno valley & me, part one here.] When my friend Carol asked me to paint their view of Baldy from the Moreno Valley, it was not the seemingly obvious view from the meadow near the main cabin that I and others had...
by Dawn Chandler | Jun 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
The first time I entered and crossed the Moreno Valley was in July, 1982. I had just completed a Rayado Trek at Philmont. My brothers were both working as Rangers at Philmont that summer along with some other Scouting friends from back home. My parents and another...
by Dawn Chandler | Dec 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
I interrupt the steady stream of weekend crane painting posts to share the gift of snow — High Country Snow. High Country Snow ~ by Dawn Chandler ~ limited edition prints (as well as the painting) now available. I don’t know the exact calendar, but it...
by Dawn Chandler | Nov 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Sunrise Sunday morning, September 16 found me sitting in my car staring eastward from a shelf of land where the New Mexico mountains meet the eastern plains. I’d come up here to paint. I was feeling lackadaisical. Too, I was hoping for the arrival of my friend...
by Dawn Chandler | Jul 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Over lunch, I had commented to my friend that I was shocked we hadn’t suffered any fires yet. The winter and spring had been worrisomely mild, and the winds had howled across April and May. And yet here it was one day from June and New Mexico had hardly...
