The weather for the past three days has been glorious, fast-forwarded to spring, and then on to summer: sunny and hot, under clear, limpid skies. All the trees are ecstaticly flowering, and people have emerged onto their front porches, walking their dogs and babies, exposing white shins and elbows, everyone giddy with the sudden, almost [...]
Posts Tagged ‘apple trees’
Spring Fever
Posted in Life, In & Out of the Studio, tagged apple trees, Studio on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Petty Larceny
Posted in Life, In & Out of the Studio, tagged apple trees, pretty, working material on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been keeping my eyes open lately, looking for apple trees in people’s yards (I’ve posted before about my love of fruit trees). This even helped motivate me to go canvass for Obama, which I did twice, because I thought I might come across a good tree in an unfamiliar neighborhood, although unfortunately I didn’t [...]
Landscapes from Italy
Posted in Finished Work, tagged apple trees, italy, landscape, teaching on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This past summer I taught a landscape painting course for Boston University as part of their Study Abroad program. It was located on an farm/estate called Capitignano, in the Mugello Valley in Tuscany, a few miles outside of a little provincial town, Borgo San Lorenzo. Capitignano was extremely beautiful, and quite isolated. My students were [...]
