"Three of a Kind" 6" x12" (Click here to bid on eBay)

The oranges are finally ripe here in Seville. At least I think they are because I saw a group of field workers collecting oranges from some local groves in the area. I'm hoping the oranges are free to members here, otherwise we may owe someone a lot of money. Click on the image for a larger view.

"Green Oranges" 11x14 (Click here to bid on eBay)

We live in a community called Seville, here in the Southtern Phoenix Valley, that was built on a former orange grove. The orange trees were spared wherever possible when they built the houses and golf course and my guess is that they still have one third of all the original trees still standing. Free oranges for everyone and they are just now getting yellow with another month before they become their true orange. Click on the image for larger view.

"Tangelos" 9x12 )Click here to bid on eBay)

This is the last painting I painted from the garage studio that I was working in at my daughter Kacey's house in Chandler. We came out to stay for the winter back in November of '07, but we sold our house in South Dakota in December and moved whatever we didn't sell to Arizona in January. Our new home is in the south of Gilbert in a development called Seville. This will be the 80th painting that I completed during those hot days and nights in that garage. It's a painting of one of the tangelos that our Aunt Mary gave us from the many fruit trees she has in her yard in Peoria. Click on the image for a larger view.