Retired for a Spell--But Still Great! 10-5

Well, heck, we've loved these scenes so much that we selected most of them as particularly special in the first year or two that we operated the Studios. But it is time for a shuffle so that we can feature some new work! We've moved these images out of our regular first 8 galleries, and we no longer feature them at our shows. We still love them. We hope you will too. And someday when we get really lazy about doing new work, we'll bring these back.

Meanwhile, you can still order them. If we don't keep them in stock right now, but we will get your order to you within a week. One last thing: because they aren't featured, you can buy two for the price of one. That is, the posted price is for 1 of the images in Gallery 10--but you can also select any other image in this gallery for free (same size or smaller).

◄ Nightfall at Gold Hill

Nightfall at Gold Hill© is a joyously golden hill, banded by the rays of the setting sun. There is real gold in these hills as well, for this is an area studded with mines, both long past and still working. You can hunt for the desert’s gold in person, looking west from Lake Mead, Nevada. Edition size: 49 small; 11 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

Nip at the Bottle©. This lively little butterfly had the entire selection of plants at Arizona’s Boyce-Thompson Arboretum to which to venture. It chose carefully, and as we watched, it fluttered down to this flowering brightly colored bottle brush to sample the nectar. Edition size: Edition size: 39 small; 11 large; artist: Sherry Shamroth.

◄ No Way Through

No Way Through© is the feeling created by winter’s presence along the steep eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada range in California. In fact, there is no way through, unless you don climbing equipment and snow shoes as some of the Nineteenth Century mail carriers really did. Edition size: 89 small; 11 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

Old Rusty© will probably continue to drive down this dry wash when the next rainy season arrives. Once it may have crossed the country in search of adventure. Now the adventure lies in imagining where it might have been, and where Old Rusty may travel next. Edition size: 89 small; 11 large; artist: Sherry Shamroth.

One of a Kind© was bagged in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Proteas have a startling flower, seemingly reaching, claw-like from below to grasp and hold on to the sky. Native of South Africa, they enjoy warm humid days and mild winters. We had to catch it before it got away. Edition size: 49 small; 11 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

On the Forest Floor© illustrates the wisdom of looking where one steps. These hedgehog cacti are thriving in the shadowed forest floor beneath a stand of oak trees. The objects in the lower right are mineral rocks in Arizona’s Madera Canyon. Edition size: 89 small; 9 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

On the Rocks© finds a rocky natural jetty in the Pacific just at sunset. The waves are crashing on its edges as the tide begins to move into the natural cove. And clustered along the jetty, enjoying the sunset and waiting for the night’s embrace, are hundreds of gulls and other seabirds. Edition size: 49 small; 11 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

NEW! Opening Day© is descriptive in several ways. Here is a single brilliantly-colored trichocereus bloom open toward the sun. The flower opens only for a single day—often starting before the sun rises and closing by mid-day. This flower was over six inches wide and deep, an incredible achievement for this little cactus, less than a foot tall. Once exhausted, the plant may not produce another bloom for a year…or it may be just too pleased with itself to stop. Edition size: 39 small; 15 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

Please Hurry© tells a real story of fire in the mountains. At its most obvious, the story is unnerving, exciting, and terrible. At another level, fire is an essential component of nature, and this forest began to renew itself almost immediately, with other species at last replacing the old growth. Edition size: 49 small; 11 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

Quenching the Thirst© seems an impossible task for this little stream in a broad river bed. The Cascade Range contains many young high volcanic mountains linked by a series of such broad rivers crossing an otherwise dry landscape. In the spring they are sometimes flush with snowmelt runoff. Edition size: 49 small; 11 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

Quiet Inspiration©. Here is an old cathedral courtyard in Salvador, Brazil. You want to walk through the courtyard, marveling at its architecture. But at the same time, you meditate quietly, inspired and almost overcome by your powerful feelings of awe at the combination of human warmth and religious beauty created here. Edition size: 29 small; 11 large; artist: Sherry Shamroth.

◄ Quitting Time

Quitting Time© is a wayside across the Australian Nullarbor Plain taken well before travel there was on anything other than a dirt track. It’s evening; and you don’t want to cross at night. And the birds in the distant trees are just beginning to squabble…. Edition size: 89 small; 11 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

Red Star© is a Texas red hibiscus. We discovered this beauty through complaining (artfully, of course) that we couldn’t find a tropical hibiscus that survived the occasional freezes of the Sonoran Desert. “Of course not,” we were answered. The loveliest hibiscus turns out not to be tropical at all; instead it developed as a part of the desert itself. Edition size: 29 small; 11 large; artist: Sherry Shamroth.

Red Velvet©. We checked this soft crepe, almost furry, creature twice to be sure that it really is an iris. Sure enough. Poking out of the tangled jungle floor on Maui is the most enticing iris we’ve ever seen. This one needs to be stroked like a soft friendly kitten. Edition size: 49 small; 11 large; artist: Sherry Shamroth.

River Reflections© offers a landscape imprinted by the pebbles of a river bottom and washed by the ripples from the cascades a little further away. The landscape and the sky are each very real in this reflected view of the Sierra Nevadas in California. The pebbles only seem to be made of gold. Edition size: 10 small; 11 large; artist: Laurie Larwood.

One last comment: We know these images are tempting; they are also copyrighted. Downloading for printing or other copying is expressly forbidden.

Gallery 10-5 - Retired for a Spell--But Still Great!