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the 92 New Year’s Eve snow, from Obstruction looking toward Orcas

With New Year’s Eve around the corner, we are reminded of our first New Year’s Eve on the Island and our kind of normal.…

I had no idea, when I decided to go to Mother’s Mattress Factory one night early in 1981, that I would be meeting my date for our first New Year’s Eve on Orcas. I thought I was going to Mother’s to hear my friend Annie sing with the Fabulous Mudtones and – newly separated from the good doctor – prove to myself that I could.

Our view through a dusting of snow

Wishing you and yours the best for the coming year.

waves coming in off Rosario

Do you remember what you were doing the day of the 1993 Inaugural Day Storm?  I couldn’t exactly but in 1993 we were building our main house on Obstruction Island. “Oh THAT storm!” I said when I looked it up in the year’s journal.

 Skagit Blizzard

It is that time of year and as the white stuff swirls down aren’t you tempted to try to paint it?  You could always frame a blank piece of paper and label it “Whiteout.”

All right.  This is a joke, but it is also a hint about how to paint snow.  It is all there.  What do you need to do to convince the viewer that the white of your paper is snow?