April 16: No responses to join me for this event as yet. Think I'll need to use another way of joining others for these events...
My husband and I drove to Dixon to pick up used wine barrels to use as watering cisterns for our fruit trees. On the way there and back, we passed several cemeteries all done up with fresh artificial flowers for Easter. Easter is a very big deal here in Taos and this weekend there will be other scenes here and there that will be fun subject matter. Not sure yet where I'll be observing on those days.
April 19: Morning cool with beautiful clouds. Settled myself on the Rio Grande Gorge rim (west side, about 1/2 mile walk north of the bridge). Swallows were darting back and forth overhead as I sketched looking north. Sun came out and warmed the valley up until the skies became completely overcast with stronger breezes. I'm endeavoring to understand values in a composition so just did a tonal sketch before light went away.
