Sooner or later, I'm going to have painted enough scenes of Texas that I'll have an image for each day. This one is a painting I finished five years ago today. It's a view of a pasture along the West Fork of the Nueces River in Edwards County, Texas that I drove past every day in and out of the ranches where I was working on figuring out where various lines had been run in 1890 that a century and bulldozing had nearly erased.
The 1890 surveyor was a fellow whose solar compass I now own, George Williams. I don't think that he packed the solar compass up and down the hills on the lines he and his party ran since he was really simply trying to fill in the pattern of surveys that the original locator, Jacob Kuechler, had only fieldnoted by protraction from a skeleton traverse and matching Kuechler's meridian was the key to that exercise.
I have to ask, between painting and posting, how much time do you spend on surveying? The reason I ask is that these days globally there is plenty of work around but very few who can do it and once one gets involved in things it's a snowball effect that could lead to working 24/7.
Richard Imrie, post: 406998, member: 11256 wrote: I have to ask, between painting and posting, how much time do you spend on surveying? The reason I ask is that these days globally there is plenty of work around but very few who can do it and once one gets involved in things it's a snowball effect that could lead to working 24/7.
I probably average about 45-50 hrs. per week on surveying work, but try to always make time to paint. One has to have priorities.
My surveying practice these days mostly deals with land disputes and title insurance claims, Many of these deal with matters specific to Texas. and have a heavy component of research and office analysis. Today's project will take me to spend a few hours at the Texas General Land Office fifteen minutes away in connection with a dispute that is about 350 miles away, near where civilization ends at the Red River.
Kent McMillan, post: 407015, member: 3 wrote: I probably average about 45-50 hrs. per week on surveying work, but try to always make time to paint. One has to have priorities.
Today's project will take me to spend a few hours at the Texas General Land Office fifteen minutes away in connection with a dispute that is about 350 miles away, near where civilization ends at the Red River.
Isn't today the holiday for New Years?
You might want to save that drive time and few hours for painting pictures.
Or work online somehow
Robert Hill, post: 407018, member: 378 wrote: Isn't today the holiday for New Years?
That may be how things are done in other states, i.e. New Years Eve turning into a party that stretches over several days, but the Texas GLO (at least Archives & Records Division) is open for business today.
Kent McMillan, post: 407020, member: 3 wrote: That may be how things are done in other states, i.e. New Years Eve turning into a party that stretches over several days, but the Texas GLO (at least Archives & Records Division) is open for business today.
LOL
They're probably open because the UT Longhorns football team is pretty dismal. If they were in a major bowl game today, most likely they would be closed, but they suck and aren't playing today.
I had a little courthouse research today and assumed that they are closed. I was going to see what I could do online.
But a lot of the courthouse online services have been suspended here somewhat. They claim it is for privacy reasons but methinks it is because the system had a lot of security problems and had been hacked in the past. Most likely due to the low bid system that was put in place. It is true that Louisiana is a "Right to Party" state.
One can see the refinement of your paintings over 5 years. Your Christmas painting on FB of the rock basin was nice.
Nice lights and shadows on those prickly pears in the foreground.
The comment on UT football this year reminded me that my alma mater ran the table on the five Texas teams they played this season. Texas, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor and Texas A&M.
