Pictures of a crab & riding in a jeep.

More Jeep Tour pictures

We took a jeep trip into the country side. Here is an iguana, one of the howler monkey's we saw, the view from the hill top in Tamarindo, and Rose our buff tour guide.

This was a really hip outdoor bar, next to the water. Notice the sofa's and big pillows. Cassie-took this for you of Dad's amazing caprese salad. Also just a picture of the grounds at the resort. It's doubled in size since we were last there, 6 years ago.

This is the pool at the resort. It probably was my favorite part. Jim looks good and these are some of our friends...we've been on about 6 trips with.

This is the beach by the hotel. There was even a swing along the beach.

The resort we stayed at: Paradisis Playa Conchal---AWESOME!

Cassie & Caleb got to go up to the ski basin to snowboard. Just had a fresh snow,but very cold. They had a great time.

Here is a recent picture of the quail at our feeder. Also Cassie & Caleb's visit.

Here are my landscape painting class paintings in the art dept. at the college. One is the turq/brown painting that started out up at the ski basin as a drawing of dried grasses. Well, you can see how it transformed. The other are the 3 sets of rocks (brown & green) from the Pecos river. Our assignment was to paint a close up view and the 3 had to be similar in color, etc.

We had quite a big group of quail at our feeder the other day. About 20 and they seemed like they were trying to get warm. Also went up to the mountains with my painting class to do some sketching of the beautiful aspen trees.

Here is a project from my painting class. We were limited to only 4 colors next to each other on the color wheel: yellow, yellow green, green & blue green. Pretty challenging. The main idea is to show deep space; foreground, middle and back ground.The black & white is a collage I did of the same scene to get the values and shapes down. Hope you enjoyed your painting lesson today!

We had their 27th wedding anniversary on Thurs. We had a fantastic dinner out and Jim got Holly the traditional roses for each year of marriage.

Yesterday I went to Los Luceros Hacienda near Espanola. Our painting class went there to do some painting. It's a beautiful old historic hacienda next to the Rio Grande. Lots of orchars, beautiful old cottonwood trees, etc.

Here are some of the beautiful sunsets from our house. This month God has really been painting us a magnificant picture with sunsets almost every night. No one could do it better.

Here are some pics of Cassie & Caleb's wedding. God really blessed the day and kept a rain storm away until after the ceremony. It was a grand time. Will have better pics for you to see soon.