Born in San Francisco and living in Southern California for now. Though there has been great lakes and lighthouses in my past 🙂

wybnormal
I do so love our lakes and lighthouses 🙂

Tom0779
I visited Germany, Austria, and France when I was a teenager and I adored Austria. My host family lived in this ridiculously lovely hillside village with a mountain view in their backyard. I really want to visit again someday. Also if you do find that kangaroo...you might want to stop eating random mushrooms that you find 😂

      England. I've just recently moved from the east coast to the west coast and I'm right by the sea, love it. I have beautiful panoramic sea views, magnificent skies and sunsets, and also lakes surrounded by rolling hills. It's an artists delight, and very inspirational. Not sure it makes me a better painter though:

      Felix You are spot on there Felix. I have always loved skies and I have often said that if I was a photographer or an artist then skies would be my subject. I am so happy to have moved to this place. I have some wonderful photos on my phone recently taken in the evening from my window, the cloud formations and the colours are amazing, and I've just had the idea of doing a painting of just the sky. I might not be able to do it justice but it will fulfill a lifetime wish. Bob Ross, thank you!

        I am from what we "affectionately" call the armpit of California (United States). I have lived in several places in the US, but found myself back here about fifteen years ago.

        doggymommee8301 Fresno? Needles? Hemet? When you say armpit, there's a lot of possibilities. 😀 Still, I'll take the dustiest backwater in California over the rustiest backwater in New York. It's just that my New Yorker wife is fond of this state. 🙄

          wybnormal That's interesting. My grandmother once showed me a family tree she had that dated all the way back to the 1600s when people started coming over here from France. How did your family make the transition from QC to California? It could not possibly have been the weather 😉

            lightsnow My wife's maternal grandparents were from Quebec. Malheureusement, moi de California, je connais plus de mots français qu'elle. 😄

              lightsnow We started in Southern France/Basque/Border.. then to Quebec in the late1600s-early 1700s.. in the 1800s, a few crossed over to VT/NH and then down to MA. From there, the family spread to midwest and California. The paperwork I've been able to find shows farmers, machinists and mechanics all listed for trades. So I'm assuming they were following the jobs.

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                I live in Port St Lucie Florida. Hot and muggy in the summers and very rainy every afternoon. Sometimes it makes u wonder why they call it the sunshine state? Then the winter gets here!! About 3 days of cold weather and then summer is back on.. No mountains in south Florida except for the ones created by the amount of garbage our counties produce. I guess this is why my mountains look like garbage and my happy little trees like garbage bags. Lol.

                To introduce a new country, I'm now from Bargara (beach) in the 'Sunshine State' of Australia & I regularly see big grasshoppers (kangaroos) without having to eat any random mushrooms. In fact we have to move them out of the way when playing golf, walking around my son's yard and avoid them when driving.

                After enjoying a few BR episode re-runs on TV a few months ago with a pre-dinner settling glass or 2 during our Covid lockdown, I bravely announced that 'I reckon I could do that'; and an now enjoying developing in this new challenge in my retirement years.

                Whilst waiting for initial BR Master Set, & subsequently brushes & extra paint, brush cleaner & beater etc from the US, I have set up a bit of a studio in our garage utilising an old ladder & back of a trailer, painted the 'Mountain Summit' in the Master Set, doing some specific technique practice on canvas tear-out pages & making use of your contributions to improve my techniques and processes.

                This is truely a terrifically helpful site for this learner painter and your articles, forum, all the BR episodes etc and your help for this learner is so very much appreciated, and you are to be congratulated on it.

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                Curleybap Where is that relative to Ennis? I used to work for a company that had a site there so I got to go visit several times. I was just going through some pictures and was thinking I need to paint some of the pictures I took 😃

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                    I don't know how it got deleted, but my response is marked as such. As I said, born and raised in California, but living in upstate New York, the part with the cows 'n' sows. Big state--would you believe, after 26 years, I've never been to the City?

                      Ian_Adkins odd, I don’t see it deleted on my end. You've never been to New York City? I hear the food alone is worth the trip. I was planning on going this year in may for a few days before catching our flight to italy. Oh well...someday.

                        Lilikins Very odd, now it's back. Since I noticed about three days, it's said [deleted] where my username should be. Chalk it up to gremlins in the server.

                        No, never, not once. My brother almost had his wedding there last year, and I was very excited to see the Met, but they ended up eloping. Google Maps claims it's 188 miles/303 kilometres, or 4 hours 22 minutes. We've been to just about every other large city in the Northeast and a few in Canada, just New York City eludes us.

                        We had a trip booked for March to Glasgow and Edinburgh, but then coronus hit, the border closed (we were flying out of Pearson in Toronto), and missus came down with cancer, so she really didn't need to be exposed. We'll try again in a year. We are going to Korea for three months in January for one of her experiments. I've really enjoyed the dining there and throughout East Asia. If you don't care for the local cuisine, all of the major world cuisines are at most a short trip by rail away. Some of the best Indian I've had was in Taiwan.

                        EDIT: In re-reading this, it occurs to me that I may have given, in the light of the cancer, the impression my wife will be experimented upon, when indeed she will be the experimenter, being a scientist. The cancer, thanks be unto God, is no more.