{"id":2823,"date":"2014-01-23T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2023-12-18T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:51:34","slug":"dipper-on-the-north-fork-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/dipper-on-the-north-fork-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipper on the North Fork Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/North-Fork-Dipper.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/North-Fork-Dipper-540x800.jpg\" alt=\"North-Fork-Dipper\" class=\"wp-image-2824\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is not a new painting, but this week we sold a large custom print of it. The painting itself is in our private collection, just because I liked it, and now I think I like it even more. &nbsp;There&#8217;s a quality about the river&#8217;s transparency, of water-carved rocks glowing from within &#8211; and that reflected glow on the dipper. OR, maybe I like it because of the memory of the moment. That&#8217;s important now as spring slowly arrives here and I wish for warmer hiking days. We have 6&#8243; high nettles up in our woods, daffs higher than that, the willows are out &#8211; and it surely is an early spring, but not earlier enough for us.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That moment: North Fork of the Sol Duc River in Olympic National Park. Hike up and over a little ridge, ford the river up to your crotch in blindingly-cold ice melt &#8211; and you&#8217;re on a truly glorious and empty trail for miles. In places there are huge water-carved boulders (where we saw this dipper dipping), and in August it&#8217;s a grand place for skinny dipping for sure.&nbsp;Thanks, Kevin, for buying the print so these memories could return.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I think this is why I&#8217;m just a painter of life&#8217;s memories. I can paint pretty good non-objective images and commissioned fictitious murals of some detail, but when I look back at all the paintings through the years, I get the best emotional charge from painting experiences from the times (good or bad) in my life. I think of the moment, the experience surrounding that moment, who I was with, what it smelled like, felt like, sounded like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Thanks for reading this week.<br>Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\">Here&#8217;s the blog on the web.<\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Larry-Eifert-Painter-of-Americas-Wild-Places\/121385854571585?ref=hl\">And here&#8217;s my Facebook fan page<\/a>.&nbsp;I post lots of other stuff there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\">Click <\/a>here to go to our main website &#8211; with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nancycherryeifert.com\">Nancy&#8217;s web portfolio of beautiful photographs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">And&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/virginia.larryeifert.com\">Click<\/a> here to go to Virginia Eifert&#8217;s website. 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