This landscape painter has been spending many an hour finishing up a 20 by 36 inch painting of the Badlands area in the Borrego Desert. Not one to be drawn to desert scenes - usually too forbidding - I found that the desert in bloom is too magical to resist! This particular location is near Ocotillo Wells in the southern area of Borrego and when it blooms it comes in later than the northern section and with different wildflowers. On a good year with a lot of winter rain the lupines are plentiful!

So here it is for your amusement. I took this snapshot as it stood on my easel and a more professional image will surely follow in a couple of days... so I make no promises about color accuracy! But at least this newly finished painting already has a title and that's a real event for me!

"Borrego Badlands in Bloom", 20 by 36 inches, oil on canvas.