Happy July friends! Here’s a fresh background for thy desktopio:

This was seen by my eyes on the descent from Mount Jumbo to Paonia town here on Colorado’s Western Slope. Lots of these craggy old juniper trees baking to white in the sharp sun.

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Wherever you are, I hope you have a wonderful month.
Peace and love,
G

Drawer of pictures, creator of stories, thrower of frisbees and California Kid Vincent Mario joins to discuss states of consciousness, cats, farming, paradox, and Paonia.

Get at the podcast via iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/painting-pictures-gabriel/id846291943

Here’s a permalink to the episode:
http://gaberobertsart.com/podcast/?name=2014-06-23_inner_atmosphere_with_vincent_mario.mp3

Artist and fellow Elsewhere resident Yasmine Pekonen joins Painting Pictures to talk about cats, creativity, destiny, and Finland.

Click here to stream and download the podcast via iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/painting-pictures-gabriel/id846291943

Here’s a permalink to the episode:
http://gaberobertsart.com/podcast/index.php?name=2014-06-17_cat_cafe_with_yasmine_pekonen.mp3
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From Paonia CO comes a solo hodgepodge special-pants warm fuzzy audio adventure. Peony plucking and oral hygeine are discussed. Brought to you by the Filling Station: “No gum, just gas”.

Click here to listen and download via iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/painting-pictures-gabriel/id846291943

Here’s a permalink to the episode:
http://gaberobertsart.com/podcast/?name=2014-06-11_the_filling_station.mp3

(originally posted on the Elsewhere Studios Blog: http://elsewherians.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/one-week-in/)

One week in.  One week of new sights and the big mountains and a new place with new birds and new bugs and all new people, and I’m already well settled enough to think about “getting out of town”.  I came from California up over the Sierras and across empty dry Nevada and Utah that wasn’t much different until you reach the Eastern edge and huge red rocks come bursting up and like a fool I listened to the end of a podcast and didn’t get the full feel of the rocks, thinking like I was the whole trip that I’ll be back some day with time to stop and sit and feel, but for now I’ve got to get through and get there so just keep on driving.

Then Colorado and suddenly there was green and rolling hills that looked like you could walk through barefoot and water running through in great roiling brown rivers and real live streams that probably had fish and then I saw horses brown and shining with green all around them and the big mountains booming behind them.  I cheered and called to the horses and felt the excitement of seeing them and imagining them running and how beautiful they were—more beautiful and elegant than they need to be—extra beauty and elegance and their flowing hair just to remind you of higher things. Reds and blues popping out from the green making me think of pictures and all around the big open air and clear light and a clean feeling.
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Brought to you by the state of Nevada! From the Gingerbread House in Paonia, CO, comes a solo hodgepodge special shiny tidbit podcast with Colorado beauty, America’s loneliest road, daredevil birds, and Tomatoes the cat.  Enjoy!

Click here to listen and subscribe to the podcast via iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/painting-pictures-gabriel/id846291943

Here’s a permalink to the episode:
http://gaberobertsart.com/podcast/?name=2014-06-03_bienvenidos_a_nevada.mp3

Happy June my furry friends!! I’ve just arrived in Paonia, CO for a one-month artist residency, and I can’t even begin to describe how awesome it is. So I won’t! Hopefully in a future post. For now, here’s a new background for your desktop:

This image is from the Auburn Blvd. onramp onto Westbound Business 80 in Sacramento.  THERE’s some inside baseball for you!  I painstakingly scrawled June, 2014, and the numbers 1-30 below.  Because thirty days hath September, April, JUNE, and November.  Sundays are highlighted.  Click one of the following links to download:

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Wishing you all a blessed, expansive, exciting, fulfilling, outdoorsy (for those of you in the Northern hemisphere) kind of a month.