Flowers Of Late

My artist friend, J R "Dick" Secor, once told me that salmon colored flowers were one of his favorites. My photography mentor, Master Photographer Carol Ann Dwyer, also suggested that I look for a bug on a flower to focus on.  So when Diana at the Ranch House Motel heard this she took time to show me one of her salmon colored hibiscuses...

... which just happened to have a ladybug as a visitor!!

 

How is the above Carol Ann?!?!?

Another salmon colored beauty was nearby.

Yellow happens to be one of my favorite colors; but, yellow has been a tough color for me to capture with my Nikon...

 

 

 

 

... until finally, it was a good day with the right light to capture yellow!!

"Thanks!" to Dick and Carol Ann for inspiring me to focus in my photographic efforts.

Did anyone see the honey bee??

Rebecca's Peacock Lane

Today is the one year anniversary of my nightmare of a meeting with DRV Luxury Suites' owner, David Fought. I had planned to do a post and call it "Recalling DRV Mobile & Elite Suites". Still may do it; but, I kind of got sidetracked while here are at North Trail RV in Fort Myers, Florida having work done on our new Tiffin Allegro Bus. Today, we started our second week in the service bay.

We went to lunch the other day and saw a sign that said there was a Corps of Engineers Recreation Area nearby. So, we set out to check out the campground and met a wonderful lady, Linda, at the Gatehouse to the campground. Just so happens she was on the phone with friends at the Corps of Engineers Campground in Somerville, Texas and learned that they need a couple to man the Gatehouse there starting May 1. She made a call to the Lake Manager and the next thing Evin and I know is that we are heading to Texas instead of New Hampshire to visit my older son and his family. You see, my younger son and his family just moved to Katy, Texas and the campground is about an hour away.

I guess by now you are wondering what this has to do with peacocks. Well, on the way to the campground I saw a sign that advertises a creek front lot with a dock is for sale. At some point we may buy a lot to park the RV on in the winter in Florida. Of all days, I did not bring my camera and all I had was my cell phone. As we rode down the dirt road we suddenly came upon a pride or ostentation of peacocks in full rut...

Same shot a little bit closer!!

What a beautiful setting!!

Looking down "Peacock Lane"!!



Not bad photos with a cell phone.

 



Thought I would end this post with another of Mother Nature's Peacock Lane beauties!!!!!!!

Fun With Dick & Melissa!!

We meet Dick & Melissa through the RV-Dreams.com forum. Dick is an artist and Melissa is a writer and photographer. We first communicated via email and/or by commenting on each other's blogs. We later met in person in Elkhart, Indiana because they were taking delivery of their Nexus motorhome and we were there for one of our many visits to DRV for repairs and service on our DRV Elite Suite.

At the time Dick had a wonderful blog, RV PAINTER, and I followed his painting process step by step and came to really enjoy his whimsical and sometimes irreverent monologue. I came to like his work so much I bought some pieces. One needs to understand that there is little to no space in most RVs to display art work. I make an exception when it comes to Dick's work. Just bought another small piece.

So Evin and I were very excited when Dick and Melissa invited us over to their new home in Punta Gorda. Although there was quite a storm, we had a great lunch at a downtown restaurant, walked in the pouring rain to a gallery displaying the works of other local artist and then returned to their home to see Melissa's latest book in person and to see Dick's latest paintings and some old favorites, up close and personal...

Melissa & Dick in the studio.

 

  "Balanced Diet"

J R Secor, Artist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On our way to lunch we went the point where it is believed that Ponce de Leon landed while he was searching for the Fountain Of Youth. The storm was not far off..

 

"A Gathering Storm"

 

 

 

 

 

"Fruit Salad"

J R Secor, Artist

 

The above painting is proudly displayed in our RV home.

 

"Mini Fruit Salad"

J R Secor, Artist

 

Above is my most recent painting that Dick pianted. It too will soon be displayed in our home. Can you tell I am very fond of his still life fruit paintings?!? It is only 4"x6" unframed so it will fit very nicely in an RV.

 

"The Point"

J R Secor, Artist

 

The above painting is one of Dick's most recent and also one of my favorites of his beach and palm tree series. It may be available for sale.

 

Some of the other paintings featured in this post are available for sale by Dick. So is Melissa Ann Goodwin's latest book, "The Christmas Village". You can go to www.rvpainter.blogspot.com and the other sites listed below in the comments section for more information on how to contact Dick and Melissa.