And now for something completely different: in recognition of the fact that the French election has been in the news lately, here is a French castle that I painted back in 2002. It is acrylic on canvas.

This is an impression of one of the most beautiful drives that I know: highway 14, aka the Turquoise Trail from Albuquerque up to Santa Fe. I did this painting in mixed media this season out in New Mexico.

This mixed media painting of a sandhill crane is one I did from a photo I took during the Festival of the Cranes down at the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge near San Antonio, New Mexico this last season. The sandhill crane is one of the many birds that migrate through New Mexico every year, and they are often found in great flocks in the state's wildlife refuges.

This is an impression of the Taos Pueblo that I painted this season with mixed media while we were still in New Mexico. Our actual visit to Taos was last year, and we stayed there overnight after we took the guided tour of the pueblo. The landlady at the B&B where we stayed lives in Albuquerque and drives every day up to Taos to make breakfast for the guests at the B&B and then returns home. It is almost a two and a half hour drive between Albuquerque and Taos!

This is another landscape painting that I did this season out in New Mexico. It is mixed media on paper.

This season, out in New Mexico, I did a series of landscape paintings such as the one below. I guess it expresses kind of a feeling about New Mexico more than anything else. I am already looking forward to being back out there in a few months.