All Boats

Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg

Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg

Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg

Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg

Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg

Point Richmond

Bodega Bay

My late husband, Michael, took the above photo over a period of several years. His goal was to take a photo each year on the same month to show how it deteriorated over time and make a calendar of it. One year, several later, he went there and the boat was pretty much gone, broken up and washed out to sea.

Monterey

Michael took the above and the below photos as well. He gets the credit for these three, the rest are my photos.

Monterey

Bodega Bay

The story behind this boat is the man was drunk and ran aground in Bodega Bay. I believe he got into some kind of trouble over this.

Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg

There's something about a photograph. A moment in time. It can never be repeated no matter how hard you try to recapture it.

August Monday

I'm off to a new and fresh start to my blogging. I'm going to do my best to try to stay regular with it.

This past year has brought some very big and unexpected changes in my life and I'm still sorting my way through it all.

My granddaughter and me.

May Flowers

Another late start to my morning. Feeling a bit lazy, drinking my tea and working on the computer before I actually get to work on things. I have a custom order for a shore bird painting and I'm going to work on that today. My panel is prepared with gesso. I gesso and sand layer after layer on my masonite to prepare it to accept the oil paint.

My Michael, Michael S. Moulthrop...My Love to You, Honey

My husband had two names. He was known around town as Mike, the barber and as Michael, the photographer.

Michael Moulthrop 1941 - 2017

Aiden's Photographs

Every Tuesday and Thursday

Locke, California

Yesterday was a warm, sunny day and we had the day to goof off so we drove

Petaluma Barns and Cows and Mare Island, Too

Yesterday we drove to Petaluma

Good Morning Rush Ranch

Instead of going to the gym,

Fall at Lake Tahoe

Michael took me to Meeks Bay for a couple of nights.  The plan was to go hiking and then explore.  The hiking was out as it rained the day we planned on doing that.  Instead, we drove around taking photos and drove into Truckee to explore the shops.  Tons of road construction everywhere in the Tahoe region which caused some minor delays getting around to and fro. 

Gorgeous colors up north.  I'm thinking of doing a few paintings from some of these pictures.

We drove to Mt. Rose to try and capture some shots of the aspen.  The leaves had pretty much all fallen.  I do love how the little leaves dance and quiver all over.  That's why they're called quaking aspen.

First image of the rainbow.

A little closer.

This is the oldest cabin on the lake (next to Sunnyside) and it belongs to my husband's ex-inlaws, The Bidstrup's.

Romance.

These are pictures that were taken of me some time ago.  I put on this pretty lace dress with my straw hat for a prop and posed for Mike at a location we loved to photograph near San Francisco.  Such a rustic and romantic setting with the fog and the pale neutral colors.