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 James Pond Waterlilies <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
 24″ x 48″ acrylic painting on  hardboard.<\/strong>
(I put a 16″ image on the web, so click the painting and you’ll see it enlarged.)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

This is one of those places that makes me happy to be alive<\/strong> – it gives me a sense of what I love about painting nature – the wonder of it all. From Mora Campground beside the famous Hoh River in Olympic National Park and about a mile from Rialto Beach, there’s a little trail going into the woods – and a small sign saying so – I’d seen in many times. I hiked it at 6:00 in the morning not knowing where it went – just started walking with hopes of maybe seeing some elk. It’s a loop trail, and half way along a spur goes off into the huckleberry thickets, and then right out onto a mossy log into this amazing and ethereal place. Obviously it was an ancient oxbow bend of the Hoh that was long ago cut off and evolved into a lily pond, but it just seemed like a staged set. The morning mist was just clearing, cool shadows still prevailed, but deepening color values (by the minute) foretold a bright day ahead. I sat here a long time, watching early morning dragonflies hawking for mosquitoes – watched a kingfisher dive for breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This was the view from the log.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And when I brought Nancy back an hour later, all was flat and sunny-day values – nice but nothing like the pastel and thick atmosphere I saw earlier. How far this little pond goes in either direction I don’t know, but I don’t think any other trails hit this quiet backwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This painting is offered for sale as of today. Email <\/a>us for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click<\/a> here to check out what Nancy’s currently working on with her photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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   James Pond Waterlilies  24″ x 48″ acrylic painting on  hardboard.(I put a 16″ image on the web, so click the painting and you’ll see it enlarged.) This is one of those places that makes me happy to be alive – it gives me a sense of what I love about painting nature – the … Continue reading James Pond Waterlilies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,54,82,86,115,120],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-easel-paintings","tag-hoh-river","tag-olympic","tag-parks","tag-trails","tag-wetlands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/James-Pond-Waterlilies2-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13439,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/13439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}