Palms and waterscape details

 

Mobile Bay Lighthouse watercolor painting

 

Boys on the boulders at Zephyr Cove in Lake Tahoe

THE BLUE AND AQUAS OF THE LAKE

Explorer John C. Fremont first saw Lake Tahoe in 1844 from the top of Red Lake Peak, which is located south of the basin and what is now Carson Pass. He named it Lake Bonpland after a botanist, but then changed it to Mountain Lake. Subsequently it was named Lake Bigler after a California Governor. The US Department of Interior didn’t care for it either, and commissioned Dr. Henry Degroot, a journalist, to come up with a name. Degroot suggested “Tahoe” an Indian name meaning “big water”. It took decades before the name finally stuck, thanks to action in 1945 by the California State Legislature...

Mud baths and mineral pools

Water tower and purple stalked Pride of Madeira plants

some kind of blue lake Tahoe

Swimming pools in the summer time

Tahoe Tahoe

The wonderful waters of Lake Tahoe has inspired thousands of artists and creators to deeper thoughts about time and nature...

Dream landscape view of apple orchard, watering fields

while on the airplane flying from the east to the west, i observed the system of radial irrigation installations over a landscape next to a river in the western region of the U.S. and thought about the painted atmosphere view after it was studded with a set of doughnut structures...

Modesto Gate

 Built in 1912, the entrance gate to the city of Modesto spans the street at 9th and I, a reddish color paint on a steel truss, displaying the key phrase words of Water,Wealth, Contentment, Health

Key Words that are on the top of the lists of many discussions and arguments in the news today. and more to come in the future...I painted this view using adobe ideas app for the top layers, and a brushes app for the undertone sky of blue and orange...