Pipe Springs Pooches

Pipe Springs is between Fredonia AZ and Hildale UT several miles off Hwy 389.  It served as a resting place for travelers in early years of the 1900s.  There is a natural spring that provides cool water for radiators and people and people's critters.  My mother, Mimi, my four children and I would travel to Pipe Springs where I could set up my easel and paint the old flagstone buildings that are still there.

Indigenous to the area are cedar trees which grow at about an altitude of 5000 feet. Crude fences are fashioned from these trees.  The fence posts have wire between them to keep the livestock in place. 
Six pane windows have been beaten on for years by the wind and the rain. They are made of real wood and can be opened the old  fashioned way...by hand.

I painted this on location in the late morning, when the bright sunlight was just arresting the color from the vermillion rocks. In a few hours the old place would have a completely different look. Sometimes we made several trips to Pipe Springs to complete a painting.

Mimi would read and the children would play tag among the surviving cedar trees. Summer is so much fun!

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