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Jigsaw Puzzles, Murals, National Park Service

Crater Lake National Park – New Jigsaw Puzzle

Another jigsaw puzzle arrived –  Crater Lake National Park. 500 pieces, a reference poster inside, new smaller box. We printed this one a very long time ago and I’ve always liked it. So popular we’ve decided to bring it back.  Now, we’ve put it in a new smaller box (easy storage and shipping), added a reference poster and on the design I scanned a piece of my hiking bandana for the bottom border.

Originally, this painting was all about those beautiful yet stark pines around the Caldera Rim. Those are whitebark pines, a  high-altitude keystone species that is now about to be listed as a threatened tree. And so, we’re highlighting that event here with a new edition of the lake and whitebark pines are in peril!

These puzzles are available for $18.95 each in our web store here. Just click this link.   Shipping is only $5 per destination, no matter how many different puzzles you buy, and now we have six new ones in the past couple of months.

So what’s the deal about whitebark pines? Why are these iconic and painterly trees in trouble? It’s a tragic combination of events that have come together in a perfect storm. An introduced fungal disease called white pine blister rust, Climate Change that has stressed the trees and allowed bark beetles to access the inner bark. Put the three factors together and it trouble for these trees. Whitebark pine has the largest distribution of any five-needle white pine in North America, but the whitebark pine’s health is deteriorating rapidly across its range, particularly in the Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest, and northern Sierra Nevada. In short, the forests I’ve loved my entire life are changing beyond measure and will effect not just the trees, but an entire ecosystem.

Like to read more, go to my friends at the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation.

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Larry Eifert

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Jigsaw Puzzles, Murals, Wildlife

Great Salt Lake – a new jigsaw puzzle

A pallet full of new jigsaw puzzles arrived yesterday. This painting was commissioned by The Nature Conservancy for the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Utah, and now we’ve partnered with them to produce a puzzle of the image. The finished puzzle above is the very first one put together by Kody in Salt Lake City and the printing looks very good indeed.

Below is the box back has a species key like all the rest of our puzzles, and now there’s a reference poster inside the box. These are the new smaller boxes for easy storage and shipping.

This is the fifth new puzzle for us in the past few months, a serious leap of faith of the future. We could have bought a new car, but what the heck! We’re investing in us instead.

Thanks for reading.

Larry Eifert

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

Click here to go to our main website – with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Jigsaw Puzzles, Murals, New Painting Post

Shouting Out: Four New Jigsaw Puzzles now available

All these puzzles are available in our secure webstore with the others, same price $18.95 each and $4.99 shipping on as many as you can buy in one order to one address. 

Shouting out, because we didn’t have ANY summer puzzle season since all National Park Visitor Centers were closed – you know, where most people buy our puzzles!

But now: Just in time for the holidays, we have four new puzzles. And not just new puzzles, but new designs, smaller boxes for easier storing and mailing as gifts, and a free reference poster included in each one. The reference poster makes it easy for two people to work on a puzzle at once, and each can have a reference image (the box and the poster). The boxes are now about 60% of the size of the old ones, but the puzzles are still 500-pieces, 18″ x 24″ finished size, same sized pieces and clean cuts on the pieces. It’s a nice improvement, and we’re aiming to remake all our puzzles like this as titles run out.

Puzzle pieces in a bag, reference poster, box top and interpretive stuff on the box back. Species list and even my ink drawings on the box sides.

Olympic High Country is a painting that’s never been seen or used before for a puzzle. It was painted because this place means a lot to me, and those rare endemic animals and flowers of our local mountains are really interesting. It’s a good image for a puzzle. Here’s the link to the puzzle in the store.

Killer Whales of the Salish Sea

I painted this Orca Whales image for a park on San Juan Island, and the complexity of the background instantly made it a candidate for a jigsaw puzzle. Here’s the link to this one in our store.

Two Sides of the Sea

A new design of our best-selling image. This colorful mural is now enhanced with the reference poster and smaller box, just like the others.

Old-growth Forests of the Pacific Northwest

The fourth image is a redesign of my Mount Rainier mural at the Ohanapecosh Visitor Center on the southeast side of the park. We’re at the end of our run and thought we’d start fresh with this instead of just reprinting it. Same reference poster and smaller box as the others. The detail in the foreground makes for a really complex and entertaining puzzle that’ll keep you up all night.

All these puzzles are available in our secure webstore with the others, same price $18.95 each and $4.99 shipping on as many as you can buy in one order to one address.  Again, here’s the link to all four in our store, plus the others everyone seems to love.

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.

Larry Eifert

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

And Instagram is here.

Click here to go to our main website – with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Jigsaw Puzzles, Murals

Planning New Jigsaw Puzzles

Don’t start ordering just yet, but we’re planning on at least EIGHT new jigsaw puzzles in the near future. I’ve been in the design process for the past few weeks and we’d like to share some now to get a bit of feedback. These are new in every way, smaller boxes, a free poster inside each box along with the puzzle. They’re the same sized puzzles, 18″x 24″, but the box is smaller to help with shipping and storage – storage for us especially as our little warehouse gets pretty packed sometimes.

El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico. This painting is on their park map and also as a visitor center exhibit.

After years of making interpretive puzzles from my park murals, we thought it was time to change it up, so here are the first designs. No name on the one below, but it’s Point Reyes National Seashore just north of San Francisco. This painting is on their park map.

Point Reyes National Seashore, Northern California
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.

And this one is from Mesa Verde in Colorado where the original painting hangs in the old historic museum. My dad worked here many years ago, so it has double meaning to me to see it in print in a new life.

I find it interesting how these things have found a way into my life. When we started making these many years ago,  I never suspected here I’d be in 2020 making boxes of cut-up cardboard that people would collect, a LOT of people. And judging by the email we get, they are put back together again and again.

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com, down the right side of the home page.

Larry Eifert

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

And Instagram is here.

Click here to go to our main website – with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.