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| Gary Raham, artist, writer, scientist and educator |
Gary Raham says Friday is a good day to play hooky and do some plein air painting. Just to make sure it's OK and I don't feel totally guilty, it's sponsored by the City of Fort Collins, it's a real event, an Artists' Day in the Field, so I'm outta here.
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| Artists' Day in the Field at Soapstone Prairie |
Fort Collins is very supportive of its artists, writers, scientists, and their over all population, young and old. They sponsor a lot of
free events to get us out and about so we get to enjoy life and meet like minded people.
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| Free Range Traffic Jam |
I had never been to
Soapstone Prairie and didn't realize how far away it is. I ran into a couple of free range traffic jams. Growing up with a family ranch in Texas where we kept our cattle safely contained in fenced pastures, I don't totally get this free range concept, although I've run into it several times.
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| Pronghorn traffic jam |
And another traffic jam, Pronghorn this time, free range all the time, but this I get.
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| Soapstone Prairie |
OK, we're finally here, hike in a ways and it's a wonderful day of painting. I meet several accomplished artists, all great people and realize playing hooky once in awhile is good for the soul.
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| Blooming Cactus |
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| Me, Laura Young and Christine Torrez |
We had beautiful skies, amazing landscape, enjoyed Gary's expertise and talk about the
Lindenmeier Archaeological Site and expedition artist,
Edwin Grey Cassedy and it was a wonderful day.
Thank you Gary and Fort Collins!
Now back to work for me.
