Bear Paw Meanderings

 

July 12, 2017



My bedroom is a wonderful gallery of some of the best art that I own.

It started out as a tribute to Grandma Moses. I love her art and through the years have collected seven large prints covering such subjects as winter scenes, Halloween, harvest time, and the Fourth of July.

The Grandma Moses prints did not seem enough for that room. I have a lot of pictures of relatives; two buffalo head ducks that were mounted by Grandpa Lucke in 1925, a couple Pasma “Thinkum Happy People”, and some of my own art on the walls. Two of my favorite paintings hang in that room. One is the scene looking out my livingroom window in Somers of Juniper Bay, Somers Bay and the Swan Range in the background. Another is of St Mary Lake and Going-To-the-Sun Mountain. I would never sell either of those paintings. They mean too much for me.

I have several pictures of the Lake McDonald area of the park and one large painting of the fireplace at Lake McDonald Lodge taken in 1928.

I have several framed Russell Christmas cards, all favorites, and my favorite of all the Russell Paintings, the unfinished painting called Kootenai Camp in the fall.

There is a large oil painting by D. Brieby of Summit Mountain in Glacier and a brand new favorite that I call “Me and 93”.

One day we were running a story in “The Mountaineer” as filler called Giggles from Glacier Guides. Leslie Gregory, who works for the paper in Big Sandy, found this picture of a Red Bus parked with guests out and viewing Bird Woman Falls. Imagine my surprise when I saw the picture and saw that it was my old bus 93 and there I was in the picture too. Well, I got that framed and it proudly sits now in a place of honor in my bedroom. I never realized that I kept my bus so shiny!

I sit in the old President’s Chair from the Lou Lucke Company and drink my brandy each evening. I talk to some of the paintings and pictures and admire all of them.

My little dog Fallie hears something outside and barks as if to disturb my revere but it doesn’t at all for I am among my souvenirs and at peace with the world.

I look forward to that time of day!

 
 

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