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@Dale-Proctor
These are great, some of which could be a nice challenge for me to paint. I love them. The older the better, of course.

@Kehaulani said in Railroad Photography:

A couple of those are right in the pocket of Big Dub's painting technique. You guys might do a collaboration.

Nice of you to say. I am flattered, Kehaulani.

@J-Jericho said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub What?!?!? No salmon?!?

Called To Wander

Actually, this is from a photo I took in Kechikan, Alaska and it is, indeed a Salmon run. We saw some but I didn’t choose to include any in the painting.

@J-Jericho said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub Good art is said to be evocative. To have your painting immediately make me think of a salmon run is uncanny. Bravo!

@veery said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub I get the feeling the water is going to drain out and leave the creek bed dry!

Thank you very much! Have no fear, there’s plenty of water and no danger of it draining in the near future!

Enough politics.

@Dr-GO said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

Well, here's something I just completed. You might like this one, DrGO?

It's missing a ship on the horizon, right? Maybe you want to post THAT one for comparison, or maybe not if you don't give a ship.

Here you go.

@Dr-GO said in Artist on BOARD:

Interesting stream on consciousness

Speaking of stream....my original plan did not include any stream at all. It sort of developed after the initial lay in of color. Then I thought it needed a bit more, so off I went.

@Dr-GO

You mean, North Dakota?

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

grune, sadly this is true. When I was a graduate student at Colorado State, I would sky often at Copper Mountain where there would be large groups of "tourists" coming up to sky our Rockies. I rode a lift with a College student from Texas hitting the slopes for the first time, and I was reassuring him how great the snow was in Colorado. He said, Oh, sure, not surprising since Colorado was right on the border to Canada.

What did you mean by "sky"?

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain

Auto racing began five minutes after the second car rolled off the assembly line.
Henry Ford

“They couldn’t hit an elephant from here”

General John Sedgewick, Union. Last words at the battle of Spotsylvania. Civil war.

When you get to the fork in the road, take it.

Yogi Berra

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Also, Yogi

It ain’t over till it's over.

It’s like deja vu all over again.

Thank you for making this day necessary.

You don’t look so hot yourself.. ( told to John Lindsey’s wife at an awards ceremony for the Yankees at city hall )
He said that to her when she remarked how cool he appeared in spite of how hot it was that afternoon.

All by Yogi

@Newell-Post said in A little humour:

@BigDub I swear on a stack of bibles that I am good personal friends with the professor of forensic pathology who said the last one.

One Bible is sufficient

Kia Motors and Apple are going to embark on a joint venture where car buyers can assemble their own vehicles and enjoy tremendous savings in the process.
They'll most likely call it iKia, or IKEA, not sure what the spelling will be.

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

I always wanted to open my own pastry shop..... but I could never raise the dough!

I am a part owner of one... Was able to contribute enough bread to finalize the investment which turned out to be the icing on the cake. Stop by any time. It's just yeast of the flour shop.

Made a killing on donut holes, as I convinced the customers, the holes have no calories.

I might try to roll by and give you some business. It’s the yeast I could do. All I knead is the address. Piece of cake. Easy as pie.
If I don’t make it, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

Spoiler alert:These are not going to be very good. I warned you.

Where's the capital of Alaska, juno?
What did the Swiss conductor say in the middle of practice?
What’s the Matterhorn?
Name the largest ocean. Be pacific.
What do they call French doors in France?
Do they call apple pie American?
Take baseball. I have a lot to say about that.

A UPS truck, a Propane delivery truck, and a tow truck all got stuck at the same time on my friend's steep and icy driveway.
I completely forgot the punch line, but it was really funny.
You would have liked it.

This trumpet only comes out at Christmas time. It might well be my favorite ornament!