Yup. We had cheese and crackers and apple and dark chocolate for Thanksgiving dinner. This was our view:
Is there snow in Mineral King?
Some in the shade and on the north facing slopes.
P.S. Michael smoked a turkey the next day. We had leftovers of almost all the good stuff except pumpkin pie. Feel free to send some over if you are tired of yours.
These leaves have been blown or rained or snowed off the trees for several weeks by now but I’m still coasting on the beauty from that weekend in mid October.
This is the Mineral King Road with its leaning juniper. The yellow is cottonwood leaves.
These are aspens with Sawtooth Peak.
This is the Monarch drainage with all its fall colors.
More Sawtooth with aspens.
And the East Fork of the Kaweah River along the Nature Trail in Mineral King in October.
Th-th-th-th-that’s all, folks.
I wonder if I can keep going into December with this? Don’t tempt me – I might have to change my blog description from a California Artist to an Autumnal Photographer.
Mineral King Multi-colored Slope
(Do you know where this is?)
Farewell Gap with Yellow Foreground (my titles are wearing out!)
Red Firs and Yellow Aspens (no, they don’t look very red, but that is the name of these fir trees)
Along the Mineral King Road (No, I will not call it “Take Me Home, Country Roads”!)
Fall on the Nature Trail (but don’t hurt yourself!)
Sawtooth and the Monarch Drainage
Since I took 273 photos of that weekend of Fall Color in Mineral King, I can keep going with this series for awhile. Tell me if you are sick of it! (or I can look at the visitation numbers to the blog and figure it out – I’m clever like that.)
Nature Trail Gold
Farewell Gap Golden View
Golden Slope from the Top of Endurance Grade
Sawtooth in Fall
I told you it was gorgeous in Mineral King in mid-October this year. Since our cabin is closed for the season, I will be stretching that mid-October Blast of Fall Color into several blog posts. May these photographs inspire you to do something good! (Don’t be cynical with me. . .)
Empire Peak in Fall
Nature Trail Aspens in Fall
Mineral King Fall Colors
Aspens in All Colors
The weekend of October 19-21 was a glorious time of clear weather and stunning color in Mineral King. It seems as if has been many years since the color was that good up there. Perhaps it has been that good, but I wasn’t there. In my memory, there were no reds, and the yellows sometimes blew off before hitting peak color. But, I don’t keep a journal other than my photos and this blog, so I could have missed it.
This is a source of inspiration to this California Artist. Hope it inspires you to think great thoughts, create something, stimulate the economy, or just be nice.
Farewell Gap in Fall
Mineral King Aspens
Timber Gap in Fall
A wise friend (actually, several of them) suggested I remind my Gentle Blog Readers that my photos are available for purchase.
5×7 – $10, 8×10 – $20. Any larger than that? I don’t fully trust my pixels.
How to buy? email me at cabinart at cabinart dot net (several someones wiser than me have advised that is the best way to put eddresses into blog posts – I think you’ll figure it out!)
October is one of the best months in Mineral King. (The other great months are June, July, August, and September.) I went looking through my 18,693 photos to find some of my favorites from fall in the past. Since I’ve only had a digital camera since 2007, that’s as far back as the photos go. And, you’ll have to wait for my favorite photo of 2012. How’s that for a “cliff-hanger”?
Mineral King in fall, 2007
Mineral King in fall, 2008
Mineral King in fall, 2009
Mineral King in fall, 2010
Mineral King in fall, 2011
Will I continue Fridays for Mineral King once the cabin season is over? More will be revealed in the fullness of time. . .
Meanwhile, enjoy these end of summer photos.
Puh-leeze. No standing? Really? I wonder how many people have taken photos of their friends standing in front of this sign because it is just silly. Guess it was the only no parking sign available in the Park’s warehouse.
Nope, not my cabin. I just liked the light.
This is not my cabin either. It looks so simple, classic and inviting, yes?
Sometimes I see more when I just sit than when I hike.
Taste the Arts takes place on Saturday, September 29 in Visalia, California. It is a little division of a week long event called “Taste of Visalia“. Maybe. I’m quite confused on the whole shebang.
What I am not confused about is that I will be one of many artists showing and selling my work at a former lumberyard in downtown Visalia from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The former lumberyard is encircled by Oak, Garden, School and Bridge Streets. I think the entrance is on Oak. I think it is free.
I am also not confused about the fact that I did several new paintings for the event. Here is one:
This is Sawtooth, in Mineral King. The painting is 16×20, the price is $375. Maybe people in Visalia aren’t as interested in Mineral King as people on this blog, in Mineral King and in Three Rivers. We shall see! (Who uses the word “shall” seriously??)
See what I mean?
This was the largest painting I had ever done back when I did it. Can’t remember, but I think it was in 2007, after I’d been oil painting for about one year. I thought it was mighty fine indeed. This year I took a long hard critical look at it and came to the conclusion that I paint better now.
Maybe it is just my opnion, or maybe it is true. Regardless, it is my goal to invoke the same feeling one gets while sitting on the bridge in Mineral King and looking at Farewell Gap. I think this painting is closer to that. Here, I’ll make them smaller so they can be side-by-side.
“Better” is a somewhat subjective term. Perhaps it is more modest and honest to say that I like my work better now. It has more detail. I like detail.
Frankly, I am too chicken to ask for your opinions today!
Cluck-cluck.