Rag Gulch

A half-sheet watercolor of the Quinn Ranch at Rag Gulch; painted in the early, the middle 1980's. It was a wet year. The country down there gets lively in changing weather. The storm here is passing, it will clear, everything will glisten as the sun sets over the Coast Range to the west, in March... maybe it is April. The house was craftsman, built in 1908, and pulled down a year or so after we went out to see it for the last time. The eucalyptus remains, and all the sky.

The cobalt wash at the right horizon is the Sierra, and this view shows the same mountains shown here, from a distance of about 50 or 60 miles. The San Joaquin Valley between the Tule and Kern Rivers expands the definition of beauty to the limits of the vague.

Beth went to the annual Quinn Reunion last Saturday, sed howdie to everyone, ate buffet at Hodel's, wrote about it on her blog, where I grabbed the photo of the painting. She's posted more mountain pics and Coco pics, check it out, you'll smile.

Oh. She says by phone the painting is dated 1988.