Cross Country Day 7: We survive Exit 88, only to hit... SNOW?

So, we push off from Buffalo to head over towards Bighorn National Forest.  It's raining, and we're pushing up into and through a mountain pass, and..

it starts snowing. 

In the middle of June.

WONDERFUL.

We drive through about an hour of snow, which at it's peak, was about 4 inches of accumulation (we saw a snow plow go past us in the other direction), and it finally starts clearing back up into rain.

After stopping for lunch and discovering 10 pounds of packed ice and snow stuck up in the undercarriage of the van (took us an hour to figure -that- one out, why our accelerator was sticking in idle), we finally (FINALLY!) reach Cody for the night, and check into a KOA with a hot tub.

We needed to melt off the Exit 88 incident, and the snow filled- mountain pass adventure off our bodies!!

L is for Leopard

A Snow Leopard, anyway! Something about this one reminds me of Lisa Frank, circa 1980s... maybe it's the purple/blue combo...

Fox in the Snow

I was working on a digital piece (teaching myself Painter), but it crashed and I lost the document (which was really coming along! lack of save=fail). Sad! That (and this piece) are both inspired by the Belle and Sebastian song "Fox in the Snow." I just love the imagery of foxes in winter- very japanese, and very fairy tale-esque.

Snow Bunting

Just practicing with colored pencils and markers. Many thanks to Crystal for teaching me about colorless blenders (it's the little things they never teach you in art school... )

(some new additions to the blogging scene- check out Crystal's blog, and Anna's digital painting blog. Some great stuff going on over at both sites! Check them out!)