color inspiration – inspiration through color

Yes, it’s HOT! Duh, it’s the Southern San Joaquin Valley! This week we are enjoying a bit of a reprieve at 90 degrees; last week it was 106 – yikes. So, how does one keep cool when it’s this hot? Air-conditioning, swimming, and frozen treats.

I’m sharing a recipe for a delicious Strawberry Coconut Frozen Pop from Lisa at Sweet 2 Eat Baking. Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Strawberry Coconut Ice Pops - From Lisa at Sweet 2 Eat Baking — Strawberry Coconut Ice Pops – From Lisa at Sweet 2 Eat Baking

I’m a California native and could take the easy access to fresh produce for granted but I don’t. I treasure these hot days because they bring local fresh fruit. Amazing melons and icy cold sliced mango’s are my favorite.

Music to the ears and icy frozen treats for the rest of you… If you hear the bells from the La Rosa cart STOP and enjoy, a only in your hometown nostalgic trip. Since 1980 those campanas have been ringing through out The Streets of Bakersfield, bringing a little frozen joy on a hot, hot, day.

La Rosa Frozen Fruit Bars — Yay! It’s the La Rosa Man

To be continued… more frozen treats to get us through the summer. My new favorite from my trip to Rio up next.

On a Sunday afternoon, in the middle of my hometown, there is a place where everything slows down; a place full of light and color.

Here, the earth touches the house and beats in a kind of union. There is something so calming about visiting a place where time seems to follow a different set of rules – ticking to some different beat; a place where you give up trying to make plans or control the outcome. The house, the earth that holds it, and the light that permeates through it, will instruct you. Looking through the photos I took, It seems my camera was influenced by my state of mind; calm and hazy, vague, indefinite, and maybe a little uncertain or entirely uncertain.

When there is nothing else to do but listen… It’s as if, the house is telling a story and it is. The images below tell just one, of its many stories. A few artifacts of a life lived as an artist.