Meadow in Mendocino with water tower and church spire

Mendocino times and paintings

Gensleron blog posting up for viewing

The sketches and paintings from the Mendocino expedition are also now on view within the gensleron blog pages, see link here...

http://www.gensleron.com/cities/2012/7/5/mills-mindsets-mendocino-and-memories.html

Mendocino Memorial weekend times...

A visit back to the town of Mendocino, with views from an upper deck out beyond the edge of the town and to the blue grey ocean beyond...

freshly painted house and water tower in mendocino...

water tower structures in mendocino, california...

Cape Mendocino was discovered by a Spanish explorer in the year 1542 , 300 years later the first permanent non-Spanish settlers settled in the Big River area.

When the town of Mendocino was settled and developed, two and three storied water towers were built and tied to windmills for power to store and provide  sources of fresh water. They operated on a gravity system. Many of the old water towers remain, with a wonderful sense of strength and power on the landscape surrounded by the Pacific Ocean...

desert tower sketch

The Desert Tower was designed by Mary Colter and completed in 1933, located on the eastern side of the South Rim of the canyon. Inspired by towers of the Anasazi tribes, the stonework is a mix of rough and projected stones with a series of spiral stairs connecting the spaces held within the tower.