Turtle Mountain

This is the view from the ranch house in Las Animas county, CO--high plains/foothills area.  There are rocks from petrified turtle shells on the mountain--there from when Colorado was a sea.

Cottage

 

I haven't said much about this painting--it's a reflection of home.  The ranchhouse in Colorado with the Rockies in the background.  My grandmother homesteaded this place, along with other women in the same area at the same time.  She filed her claim as soon as she could after her 21st birthday.  It was during WWI, but before the United States officially declared war.