Cleo
That look, the intense glare of Siamese blue eyes. If looks could kill . . . truth be told, her coat...

The funny thing about this painting is this was the visualization I had of the first house I owned, a nearly dilapidated post-war house in Grants Pass, Oregon. A mean oak tree had buckled the driveway, lifing it three feet from the ground, and threatened the converted garage foundation, there was nothing but a three step stoop, by the front door, and the door was actually a delaminated mahogany interior door that was thin as paper.
Two years later it looked almost exactly like this, without the driveway slab but with a square step, rail, and porch railing, every brick carefully laid by my own hand.
That look, the intense glare of Siamese blue eyes. If looks could kill . . . truth be told, her coat...
Another glorious view from my back door of the setting sun spiked with palm trees against the bright...
I never get tired of San Diego sunsets, or the slow declines that lead up to them as the sun makes i...
It Begins With Us is part of a series that began with one of my wife’s daily walks in which sh...