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I Dream of Haystack Rock
A long time ago, before Cannon Beach was mobbed 12 months out of the year by tourists, it was a perfect place for a boy to be. The beach was always inviting. There were rocks to climb, tide pools to play in, and sand to run in. No matter the weather, a boy could find…
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Mazama – Liberty Bell
It was a year ago and a life ago that Donald and I rode to Mazama and back on a tandem. Donald had done that ride several times and every year he said he wanted me to do it too. Finally last year, after training by riding up some really steep hills, I agreed to…
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Clarence and Sophyra Hartness, 1941
It is my good fortune to possess the negatives that once belonged to my husband’s grandfather Tom Boothby. Tom and his wife Winnie drove all over the northwest in their free time,camping and cataloging their travels with their camera. Most of the pictures are of themselves, but they also took pictures of relatives. The people…
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you.
One of my favorite songs as a child was an aria from a sad opera called Pagliacci. The aria is still one of the most empassioned laments I have ever heard, but the gist of it was, “you’re a clown. Laugh, people want to hear you laugh. Your heart is broken? use that heartbreak to…
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The Dance of the Slithy Toves
As a painter of realism, sometimes I have to just let go and paint crazy stuff. And then push it as far as it will take me. Here I have a trio of slithy toves dancing around a borogove. While Lewis Carroll (who wrote the Jabberwocky in which these creatures came to light for the…
Mimi Torchia Boothby
a gallery of paintings