“Evening on Cebolla Creek”
This is a painting of one of the rapids on Cebolla (Spanish
for onion) Creek on the Oliver Ranch in the San Juan Mountains in southern
Colorado. This creek parallels a remote gravel county road in a canyon
high (9500 ft) in the mountains just west of the continental divide,
thirty five miles south of Gunnison, Colorado.
The crystal clear waters in this creek are full of rainbow and brook
trout. Adjoining the east and west sides of this canyon are 200,000
acres of BLM mountain vistas full of elk, deer, cougars, coyotes, bobcats
and all sorts of other wild creatures. The nearest community is Powderhorn—which
consists of a vacant cabin and two mobile homes—at the junction
of two gravel roads eight miles to the north. At one time, about one
hundred and twenty years ago, Powderhorn was a stagecoach station.
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My wife, Corinne, and I are excited about going to the Oliver
Ranch for a long weekend in the middle of September. I plan to get a lot
of material for doing paintings. There few places in our great nation as
remote and as beautiful as the Cebolla Creek Canyon.
Cheers,
Acree
(October P. S.: Hurricane Ike had other plans for us in September.)
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