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Palo Duro Canyon – The 1st Visit

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It is here! The long-awaited post of an outside adventure with beautiful pictures. I finally had the opportunity to visit Palo Duro Canyon, which is in Canyon, Texas. It is the second largest canyon in the United States. I was told it is a lot greener this year because of all the rain. While reviewing the pictures I took, I believe they all can out beautiful especially because of the blue, blue sky.

Here are twelve of the pictures I took.

I plan to explore the canyon again, there is so many trails and many adventures available.

#Tinktober the First Ten Days

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This year Tinkercad is hosting a #tinktober event to provide design prompts to their tinkers. Here are the designs I have created in the first ten days.

Haunted House – Day 10: Notice the ghosts in the windows. If someone really wanted to, they could fix up the house and rid it of the ghosts. Or, they could make it scarier.

Full Moon – Day 6: Each of the trees are made with at different basic Tinkercad shapes.

Pumpkin Carving – Day 4: Check out Day 2 to see where I got the idea for the carving. I also placed a candle on the inside of the pumpkin.

Candy – Day 3: Don’t forget to dump out the candy so you can see what types are inside.

Black Cat – Day 2: Okay, it is just an outline of a black cat, but I added a loop so it can be used as a keychain or a charm. You can easily print this design. The others would be a little bit tricky.

Costume – Day 1: I decided to design a fairy costume. Since my fairy lives in a forest, the costume was made out of leaves.

I did not participate in all 10 days, because there were some prompts that I wasn’t interested in recreating, like bugs.

Rescued Houses Part 5 with Trees

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This is the fifth post about the houses I painted after the flood of 2016. If you interested in learning more check out Rescued Houses – Part One.

This house is about twice the size of the ones I normally paint. After sitting in the flood waters for a few days, it has some damage to its plaster. Some of the houses the damage with too extensive to attempt to save.

The trees survived the flood without damage, because they were in the boxes higher up. Yes, I placed all the heavier objects/boxes on the bottom to keep from crushing the lighter boxes.

The trees were painted green then dried brushed with white paint.

Plastercraft Houses – Set One – 2023

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They’re back! Yes, I have painted some more plastercraft houses in 2023. Two of the houses, Brass Lantern Shop and White Horse Pub were released, unpainted, by California Creations before 2010. Around the time, the company went out of business. The Shire Church was release by Colorbox, which still make things to paint but mainly for children. At the rate I am painting houses, I should have enough houses to be painted until about October 2064.

Brass Lantern Shop

White Horse Pub

Shire Church

Rivery Park

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Another park in Georgetown, TX. This was behind the hotel I was staying in. It was a gloomy day and I capture these photos between sprinkles of rain. The area where the park resides was owned by the Shell family in the 1800’s. On the outskirts of the park, there is a large condominium development, with decent architecture. Tree limbs were down around Georgetown and the Austin area, because a week before an ice storm hit that area breaking limbs and powerlines.

Fall 2020

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In October 2020, I went on an adventure to take picture of Fall. Since, I haven’t traveled outside the State in 2020 the pictures were taken at local parks. I have figured out why people love Fall so much, it is the colors. Green, Red, Oranges, and browns. The most difficult decision is: What pictures to include in the blog?

Hall County Park
Hall County Park
Stuhr Museum
Stuhr Museum
L.E. Ray Park
L.E. Ray Park
Eagle Scout Park
Eagle Scout Park