by Dixie | Jun 18, 2010 | history
On a sunny Fall day I captured this scene that exists in a near by area, behind a tennis court in a city park in Santee. The colors were just sizzling and I loved the orange color in this bush by the trail to Cowles Mt. I don’t even know th name of this...
by Dixie | Jun 9, 2010 | history
It was such a surprise when one of my friends showed up at one of my art shows and bought the painting of an old victorian that I painted in Heritage Park, San Diego. She said she just bought the old claw foot bath tub from that white color victorian which was up for...
by Dixie | May 30, 2010 | random stuff
When ever I find an odd looking tree I have to get a photograph of it. It is an odd thing to collect, but ever since my art teacher taught me to look for a symbolic characteristic or an attitude of a tree that is what I am aware of.  For instance, a coy school...
by Dixie | Apr 26, 2010 | history
It took me ten years to get around to it. I took a photo of a residence on Old Hwy. 80 in San Diego county. It was such a nice setting, like the old houses that were around when I was a kid. While I was doing my photoshoot across the street with my telephoto lens, out...
by Dixie | Apr 21, 2010 | history
It was a morning after a very dramatic thunder storm in the night and the dark clouds were still lingering but trying to clear away. I’m driving down the road after visiting my in-laws on Mission Gorge Rd in Santee, CA. (1997) I wish I had a camera in hand,...