Three Final Pieces from the Exhibit

Three final pieces from my exhibit "The Nature of Things" -- Click on the images to see the details in my store. Thanks! Christine

West End Beach House

Yes indeed, a couple more from the exhibit. Enjoy!

Two more from the "Nature of Things" exhibit

Two more pieces from the exhibit "The Nature of Things" -- just click on the images to see the details of each piece or visit my store. Thanks!

Painful Melancholy Beauty

So I'm sitting here late at night, thinking I should go to bed. But I just can't seem to drag my sorry butt into it. I'm tired, losing concentration This means I'm not able to do the typical graphic stuff I typically do at or around this time. Graphic stuff includes preparing images for web, for print blah blah blah.

So why the heck can't I just give up??? Not sure I know at the moment, but I do know I'm suffering some sort of depression or anger issues. Everything is pissing me off and that isn't even remotely my nature! I'm almost always easy going and nice. Love nature, love people (well, some of them anyway) love my family...all my damned animals.

Maybe I'm just getting overwhelmed. Maybe it was hearing that we are in for a colder, wetter winter up here in the pacific northwest. Now that will depress the Pope I tell you! I'm not religious, certainly not Catholic (no offense whatever meant to Catholics) But he seems like a stand up guy who handle just about anything. Try 10 years up here on the northern coast of Washington. I'm getting fussy about it. Love the summers, but the winters...ugh. Rain, rain and more rain.

And don't even tell me or consider Seattle part of the mix. It does not rain Seattle. It's all a myth perpetuated by who ever perpetuates these things. Probably the same person who convinced everyone it snows all winter in Denver. No. Try upstate NY for that one I guess. But anyway, Seattle gets nowhere near the rain we do. In fact, speaking of NY, New York City gets a smidge more rain than Seattle does!

So there. Nope. I live out in the actual rain forest. Yes. There is a real rain forest in the US. A rarity actually as it is only one of a few temperate rain forests in the world. Tell me about it. I live in it and while it is fantastically beautiful (and I hear vampires and werewolves live out here close by, very close by) it is rough trying to make it through late fall, winter and spring while keeping one's head on straight.

Here are some links to how pretty it is: (I'm trying to make myself deal with it better, can you tell?-- What can I say? I'm from Colorado)

http://www.forkswa.com
http://www.clallambay.com
http://www.portangeles.org

Actually, the Port Angeles link is a great one but it's 55 miles away from me over in the sun belt. They get about 18-20 inches of rain a year. If they are lucky. Nope. I get about 100-175" depending on the year. Some parts out here get up 200 plus. The actual rain
forest.

I have to laugh at the visitors that come out here. Not to their face of course. But in general. They fuss and complain or are disheartened because they come out to visit the rain forests of Olympic National Park in the summer! And they get upset because it isn't raining! It doesn't rain here in the summer! (The whole 8 days we get) Very rarely does it rain in the summer! Let us locals have a little time of no rain. Eh? Just a little?

Come on up here in late October through May. You'll get all the melancholy, sweet beauty and sadness type whatever you are looking for in the rain forest then. And it is beautiful I do have to say. But it does get old after 8 or more long months.

Ok, so I'm getting a little cranky again. That's because it's now 2 am and I reckon it's really time to give it up and heave the night owl off my shoulder. He'll be back on me tommarrow I'm sure. And besides, I still have some fussing to do to make myself feel better about living in such a painfully beautiful place.

Sea Horses - The Nature of Things

"Unconscious Summation" -- One more piece from the Nature of Things Exhibit. Click on the image to see the details, and thanks!

Log Cabin Decor - Trout!

Two more paintings from my exhibit "The Nature of Things" Click on the images to see the details in my store, thanks!

Remixed Elegance

Remixed Elegance - Another new painting from my exhibit "The Nature of Things" Please click on the image to visit the details in my store. Thanks!

The Music of Innocence - Collage Painting

The second in my new series for my exhibit "The Nature of Things" in Port Angeles, WA. Click on the image to visit the details in my store. Thanks!

Fragments of Treasure - Original Collage Painting

The first in a line of several collage paintings I completed for my exhibit in Port Angeles. Starting bid is 99.00 - Or buy it for 145.00. Click on the image for details in my store!

The Nature Of Things

I will be having the last show/exhibit of the year this weekend. Click on the poster to see the details, location, fun stuff like that :-)

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