Ancient Highway

Song - These Are the Days by Van Morrison

Another road trip with Mr. B.

 Back to the Gold Country for......

 Wildflowers......

 Time together........

 Beautiful weather.....

Snow in the distance......

And a few short cuts!

 

Remember how I have told you that Mr. B loves back roads?

Well this time it worked out!  We took a small back road that turned into a gravel road, 

to my art show at Ironstone Vineyards in Murphys. The above photo is not Ironstone but a small winery along the road.  The above photo is not a driveway but is the actual road.

From early in the morning Saturday until early evening, 

the roads in and out of Murphys were grid-locked. 

But my quick thinking honey remembered a sneaky way into town and the winery!

Voila!  

We made it in plenty of time for the Daffodil-Tulip show, the Art show.........

And into town for Irish Day!!!

Along with a few thousand other people.

People were out in their finest greens....

After the crowds died down, we had a relaxing dinner outside on this veranda with some great food!

 

However, Mr. B forgot to wear green and was thrown into the Pokey!

"I don't like jails, they got the wrong kind of bars in there." --Charles Bukowski

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Making it to Murphys

Song - Casadh an Tsugain/Frankie's Song from the movie Brooklyn by Iarla O Lionaird

Saturday Mr. B and I drove to Ironstone Vineyards in Murphys, CA to drop off some paintings that were accepted into an upcoming show. It was a beautiful day for a road trip!

The California central valley was as green as Ireland.

We drove by hundreds of old barns, many collapsing and returning to the earth.

Wildflowers were abundantly sprinkled on the hillsides in purple, blue, orange, yellow and red.

And snow could be seen on the distant Sierra's.

We arrived after a few of Mr. B's "short cuts" (ie - dirt roads, roadrunners, wrong turns, need gas now warnings, cliffs, etc.)

Ironstone is hosting the 2016 Spring Daffodil Show for Northern California and they had barrels of beautiful bulbs blooming everywhere!

We will be heading back up there next weekend for the reception and opening of the Spring Obsession Art Show! Beautiful country this time of year.........

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." --Mark Twain

Hope you can join me!

Three of my paintings were juried into Ironstone Vineyards Spring Obsession Show.  Hope you can join me for the Reception on March 19th!