Watercolor paintings

Now framed and for sale
(sizes not counting frames)

New Mexico autumn 4 1/2" by 8 1/2"

Adobe porch, 5 " by 7"

Oklahoma barn, 10" by 7"

Pueblo Trinity 11" by 17"

Shadow of the Cross, Ranchos de Taos, 11" by 14"

Solstice sunset, 11" by 14"

Taos Dreaming, 21 1/2" by 14"

Heading for High Lonesome, 30" by 22"

A real car

My first car was a Studebaker--ahead of its time, and doomed... I visited the Oklahoma History Center Saturday with our guest, Dr. Sridhar Krishnaswami of SRM University in India. It is one classy outfit, one of four great museums in Oklahoma City. We came across this beauty. I'm in love.

When cars were cars and had character

Azaleas in bloom

Our front yard, with azaleas in bloom...those at the base of the gray brick wall of the garage in the background have already faded.

Not as good as those  gracing the front porch of the Manse of my cousin and husband, Sarah and Bob Foote of East Texas, but hey, not bad for Indian Territory.

Visitor from India

Dr. Sridhar Krisnaswami of SRM University in Chennai formerly Madras), India, talking with my blogging students last week, about journalism, media, India, politics and more. He was my host on my recent visit there. He's a former foreign correspondent for the Daily Hindu newspaper, in both Washington DC., Singapore and other places. Now he's head of the journalism program at SRM, and UCO has exchanged students and faculty in a partnership arranged by Dr. Pam Washington, dean of the college of Liberal Arts, here at UCO. Photo by Dan Smith of photo services.

For more information, see my earlier posts on my India visits.

Hi-tech, at sea

Amid all the super scientific stuff aboard the USS Abe Lincoln, I found two impressive tools.

Look at that wonderful old-fashioned wrench!

And in the welding shop...an anvil! Somethings just don't go out of style, or need.

The welding shop "nerve center."

Hawsers ready to be shot ashore to moor The Abe at Everett.

But, high tech abounds. Here are views of the medical department:

Operating room and equipment

Examination and treatment room

X-Ray--which are then zapped to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland to be read.

"Sick bay"--not shown, the three bed ICU.