Category: Petrified Forest

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 10, Oct. 5, 2010

    After all that fussing about climbing down the wilderness trail, we woke up to rain. Not much, but a very cloudy sky and big fat drops. No wilderness trail hiking/painting for this cautious (or lazy) couple. We rescued paintings from the back patio, where we thought they were safe under shelter (not quite), did lots…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 9, October 4, 2010

    October 4, 2010, Day 9 of the Petrified Forest Adventure. I’m fairly brain-dead tonight. If I had any thoughts, they have fled to bed. I painted at the Long Logs trail in the south end of the park. I needed a long horizontal landscape for the putative rectangular presentation and had already done one of…

  • Petrified Forest, Day 8, October 3, 2010

    This was our day off, a day which I intended to be so lazy that I would awake at 10, take 3 naps, and be in bed before 8. Good luck! I woke up as the sky was lightening, but closed my eyes fiercely against the temptation. Then I opened them again as the sky…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 7, October 2, 2010

    The good news is that I painted the rusting car, which sits at the Route 66 stopping point on the PF drive, and it was fun. The other good news is that we had a desert thunderstorm all around us tonight and saw gorgeous clouds, a tad of rain, and smelt the sage as it…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 6, October 1, 2010

    Petrified Forest, October 1, 2010 Off we went, late this morning – 6:30 rather than 6 AM. The ranger had already opened the gates and moved on. Some mornings we have arrived before he did (we have a key to open the gates ourselves). Other mornings we arrived just as he did, and he got…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 5, September 30, 2010

    Sept 30, 2010 6 AM: This (early) morning we went to southern entrance of park, where a stabilized  petrified-wood building, dated around 1250 AD, is located. It’s about a mile up an easy walking trail and represents something of the Puebloan culture that inhabited this area. Officially called Agate House, the structure has been stabilized…

  • Petrified Forest Residency: Day 1, September 26, 2010

    The terror I felt last night was mostly for naught – perhaps just a way of ensuring that I don’t get too uppity. However, the entrance to the Park was as intimidating this morning as it was last evening – or perhaps more so in the blank light of day, with the inevitable commercial nonsense…

  • Petrified Forest Residency: About to Begin

    We are in Holbrook, Arizona. No art will be displayed in this post. No art has been produced for this post, nor for any other in recent days, although we’ve passed through seriously artistic scenery. Which might be the problem, along with the problem of just driving and driving and driving and eating road food…