As the month of March was ending, the seriousness of the covid pandemic was becoming more clear, and "Stay at Home" orders were being issued. So home I went, and I spent the next few months learning to live in my house again, getting some spring cleaning and decluttering done, and getting involved in some pretty interesting projects, like building this blog site, participating in a virtual choir, painting pictures of some of my favorite places, and taking a few online courses, including one in conversational Spanish!
I built a little online gallery to post and share some of the artsy stuff I've been doing during this time. I've long said that when I can't travel, I'd like to paint some of the amazing places I've been able to visit. I'm making no claims to great art here, but I've been having fun mostly using watercolor to "paint" black and white images of some of my favorite places. After they are done, if I think they are reasonably interesting or good, I post them in the online gallery. Another work in progress. Here are a few examples:
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Pyramid Mountain, Jasper National Park, Alberta
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"Class II," Hillsborough River, Florida
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| From Angel's Landing, Zion National Park, Utah |
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The Narrows; Zion National Park, Utah
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| Sandy River Gorge, Oregon |
You can check out more of the pictures as well as a description of how I make them at:
On an entirely different note, I had a wonderful opportunity to participate in a virtual choir, led by Eric Whitacre, a contemporary composer who more or less "invented" this musical art form. He wrote a song called "Sing Gently," specifically for these times and and for a virtual choir. Anyone who was interested was invited to join in the effort. In the end, 17,572 people from 129 countries participated in this production. And here is the beautiful song that came out of it all. Very happy to be part of it!
As things open up a bit and travel restrictions ease, I hope to explore more amazing places that are much closer to home than I was originally planning for 2020. This should be a good year for kayak and canoe sailing on my local river, the Susquehanna, and also a good year to explore hiking trails and wild and scenic rivers near me.
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