Cowboys and Lone Star beer.

Giant blooming century plant (agave americana). The blooming stalks were once used as part of alien landscapes for old sci-fi movies. These plants are in my front yard.

Downtown Drippin’ Springs, Texas. It’s already too hot out there.

Old barn, new house. The winds of change in Wimberley, Texas.

Chicken feet. My neighbor has decided to start a poultry farm.

Buildings that are half rock formation, half modern skyscraper, this city works with the natural landscape. Watercolor and ballpoint pen.

Boston tunnel, under the Charles River. The Big Dig.

Windows. Medford, Massachusetts.

Thirty thousand feet above Pennsylvania. There was plenty of time to look out the window and draw. Traveling from Boston to Austin.

Thunderstorm at sunrise. When the lightning hit close enough to knock out the electricity, I sat on the porch and sketched. The sunrise colors of the sky mixed with the heavy clouds, giving a greenish orange glow the morning.