Plein Air Public Lands: Day 18 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Capitol Reef National Park Rex was up early and at ‘em, before sunrise, to plein air in the shade of a monolith, while per usual I caught a few more winks. I sleep the best from 4 to 7 am, the coolest part of...
Plein Air Public Lands: Day 17 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp San Rafael Swell The morning light before the sun was beautiful in the Factory. The quiet reminded me of my days of opening shifts at Starbucks. I’d rise while the world still slept, stumbling to the store to...
Plein Air Public Lands: Day 16 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp San Rafael Swell Last night we woke to the sound of coyotes hollering and talking to one another. It was a welcome sound. Living in a log cabin up a canyon on the Flathead Indian Reservation for three years, we...
Plein Air Public Lands: Day 15 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Bears Ears If you haven’t been following the news, recently Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended rescinding Bears Ears National Monument, possibly shrinking the protected lands from 1.35 million acres to...
Plein Air Public Lands: Day 14 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Bears Ears We decided to move our invitation to public plein air with us event to a sooner date. We had one attendant rsvp, and he was anxious to get outside and create. Jim, from our educational event, joined...
