Peppers Art Gallery, Update

We are back home in Bastrop. It is so weird, it doesn't seem like we have been gone. There are changes, of course. The house has an abandoned feel, cleaning and airing needed! There is more new construction and businesses along the way. Who is moving into all these new homes and apartments? They have almost finished the overpass to 130 (toll road) between here and Austin. I stopped in at HEB for basic groceries and it is much the same. They had my gluten free crackers, Nut Thins, (These are so good anyone would like them ..nuts and rice base) and a new box of macaroni and cheese, well rice-roni and cheese, for me to try. It tasted OK, but looks strange. The pasta (can you call it pasta?) cooks up a little gray. (It didn't impress me enough to remember the brand.) Also HEB has great corn tortillas, called Home Style. I missed those.

We had stopped by Peppers Art Gallery in Magdalena, New Mexico, on October 15 and took down the remainder of my show. I left four new paintings and picked up a bunch. I now have 11 paintings there. Contact Peppers for purchase information.

Here is a view of all of them from my web page. You can visit my page to see the other seven in larger format.

The new ones are:

Windmill, Too
Soft Pastel, 10 x 16 inches
On masonite fixed with the new Colourfix medium.
More info and a story here.

Organ Mountain View

Plein Air
Soft Pastel, 9 x 11 inches, On Colourfix card

Aguirre Spring Park

Plein Air
Soft Pastel, 9 x 12 inches, On Colourfix card

Alamo
Soft Pastel, 8 x 10 inches, On R-tis-tx board
read more about this one here.

Windmill, Too .. Pastel Painting

Windmill, Too
Pastel on Masonite with Colourfix
10 x 16 inches, framed against the glass, in a black metal frame.

I finished the windmill painting to take to Peppers in Magdalena tomorrow. I did not take any photos of the work in progress. The Colourfix was a maroon color. The image is from a couple of photos and some good memories. The mountains are the Magdalena Mountains on the west side. The windmill was near Cliff, New Mexico, and the second low tank is from a memory of one at the Pie Place north of Magdalena. The windmill poured into a tall tank and then the lower tank filled from underground with a float to keep it from running over. We used to swim in the bigger tank, well, I used to get in the tank. I couldn't swim much in those days. The water had alkali in it so was not drinkable by humans. To take a bath in it and not itch to death, we would add Tide to the water. Hmm. I guess we got clean, even if we didn't get rinsed very well. :) Is that a good memory or not?

The drinking water at the Pie Place was rain water. When it rained we would wait until the roof was rinsed off (I'm not sure how it was determined that the roof was clean enough), then open the tank and catch the water. We would let it sit for a couple of days after until the gunk had settled to the bottom and drink from that. They would fill a big bucket and wrap it with gunny sacks. This was wet down and hung on the porch to cool for drinking. Everyone would drink from the same dipper. I guess it gave us strong stomachs.

I prefer to drink from a faucet these days. I just don't care for water that sits around. I know tap water sits in a tank somewhere, but I want it moving when I get it. I always preferred the spring water from the Pino Place. It came rushing out of the ground, nice and clean. We hauled it about twenty miles from there when there was no rain. I have not been much of a water drinker over the years. So you folks drink your expensive bottled water and I will get mine flowing from the faucet.