Melwell Romancito

They only come out at night

No, I am not talking about the Edgar Winter album from 1972, I’m talking about the Night Walkers and Nature Spirits that come out at…

There’s a song we sing in the Swing Dusters, the Western Swing Band I am in with Robert Parsons and a wonderful group of musicians.…

Earlier in the week I posted about the persistence of vision of an idea with regard to planting seeds and making paintings. Even earlier I…

When we moved into our house in Lower Ranchitos, I tried a lot of things when it came to gardening and planting. Not a whole…

The addition of a bird feeder to my usual springtime hanging of hummingbird feeders has led to invasion by a family of magpies. Hilarious and…

Here’s another painting of a Northern New Mexico Church, the old site of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church prior to it burning down in…

Every once and a while I’ll pick up an art magazine and be really impressed with a painting I might see. Most recently, I saw…

Up in the mountains of Northern New Mexico is a little church where the idea of miraculous healing nd pilgrimage is still alive. The church…

Opportunities for Plein air painting are all around in Taos and Northern New Mexico. When I give my ghost tour and someone asks just how…

One of the things I’ve been devoting my time to over the last few decades is the pursuit of a medium that can express what…