Happy #MeerMittwoch! 💙 Sharing two coastal watercolors inspired by the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail in Pacific Grove.
My paintings are available at Moraga Art Gallery. Art lovers in the #BayArea, see "Let the Light In" thru March 15. ☀️ I'm happy to be a featured artist! 🎨 https://moragaartgallery.com
Pacific Grove Serenity 💙 My new watercolor painting is 22x28 framed, part of a new exhibit at Moraga Art Gallery.
"Let the Light In" runs through March 15. This is one of many coastal paintings I'm showing. Happy to be a featured artist! 🎨 Please visit https://moragaartgallery.com in the #BayArea.
Watercolor painting of a coastal scene. Blue/green water, rocks and ice plant, cliff with large rocks and a pathway. Buildings in the background, blue sky with a few clouds.
Watercolor painting of five sandpipers on a beach. They are at the shore, with their reflections on the wet sand. Blue/green ocean waves with white caps.
My artwork is inspired by visits to Monterey. It's always nice and peaceful to watch the shorebirds.
This 11x14 painting is one of many small works available at Moraga Art Gallery in the #BayArea. See our Holiday Boutique, gifts of art $100 and less. 🎁 https://moragaartgallery.com
FREE SHIPPING this weekend in my shop! 💙 Free ground shipping on all US orders, Nov. 22 & 23. It's a great time to find gifts of #art. Here are three of my Monterey watercolors. Art makes a great gift!
Hello #BayArea art lovers! 💙 Moraga Art Gallery is a lovely #gallery to visit. Come see our new exhibit! Join us for a festive reception this Saturday 5-7 pm. Art, wine, refreshments & live music! 🎨 🍷 🎶 https://moragaartgallery.com
Harbor Seals at Hopkins Beach, one of my watercolors in the exhibit. 24x20 framed.
Peaceful Pacific Grove 💙 watercolor
My painting is inspired by walks along the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail. The original has just sold at Moraga Art Gallery. A lovely #BayArea gallery, please visit when you have a chance. https://moragaartgallery.com
Watercolor painting of a coastal scene in Pacific Grove, California. Blue water, waves, ice plant and flowers in the foreground. Rocks, cliff, sailboat in the distance. Blue sky and clouds.
Sept 28 - Oct 1 is California Chapter of American Planning Association conference, in Monterey County. https://www.apacalifornia.org/ Conference theme is "WAVES OF CHANGE: Reconnecting #Communities.” Two of 13 mobile workshops are promoted as being via bicycle, and there's a bike in conference banner, and @ 1:00 in “APA California 2025 Conference Hype Video.” In Feb we were invited by a Santa Cruz County based planner to serve on a bike-related panel at the conference, and we urged them to instead invite #CalBike’s executive director or policy director (which he did). He later reported that his panel submission was rejected by conference organizers. :(
Walking the pathway to #Asilomar Beach in Pacific Grove, California. I just love it there. I painted this in watercolor, wanting to capture some of the wonder and beauty in my favorite medium. Happy #MeerMittwoch! 💙
Asilomar Beach Pathway, one of the watercolors available in my shop. Prints, decor, gift items. Here is the canvas print. Asilomar in Pacific Grove is such a wonderful, inspiring place!
I discovered something delightful this year. I have sea legs. Perhaps because I come from an island, and I have never lived far from a sea. My idea of ‘home’ is ‘small and annoying cities by the sea’.
I am never sea sick.
I know how to manipulate my body on a boat.
I know when to sit at the hull, and when to avoid it.
I have a special technique for stabilizing myself on the side of the boat while something exciting is happening in the distance.
Lately, I have learned: in which direction I should point my camera, on a wildly unstable boat, just sensing and hearing the sound and huff of a whale spout right as it happens.
The smell of whale breath in the air: like broccoli, and brussel sprouts, and anchovies, all at once.
I laugh too much at stories about whale poop, whale genital parasites. I am surrounded by people who say things to me like ‘I discovered that male lumpfish can have pink blood’, as matter of factly as describing what they’d just had for lunch.
I participate in speculation about why whales slap their pectoral fins. Nobody knows for sure, but it is fun to imagine.
Some days, I am surrounded by so many whales, whale spouts, whale flukes, that I don’t know where I should look.
I see specific whales and dolphins and I know some of their names. I was happy to learn that a humpback calf I had seen in May now had a name (Mr Magic).
I point out specific whales to friends and say; that one is Pepper. That one is Little Dimple. I’m not a marine biologist but I listen to every word from naturalists and marine biologists about each of the creatures in our backyard.
Some spotted a whale breaching. The captain (who calls himself Only Fins), floors it, so that I can get this photo.
Going out on a small boat regularly to see whales, and soon, orcas, was the pillar of my mental health I didn’t know I needed.
I wish I can go back in time and tell the younger version of me: one day; you will know many whales, some of them by name.
I will never make fun of sea lions for being lazy anymore. I saw thousands of them in the ocean swimming and hunting for a long time. no wonder they are so tired and they like to bark about it