Beautiful Mural 6-13

As our downtown is being revitalized there is an effort to organize local artists to paint murals on
many of the downtown buildings. A friend of my is one of those muralists. She is extremely talented and she loves horses like me! That's actually how we have gotten acquainted. Her name is Joelle Bolt.

Joelle has painted another mural before this one but this one is the largest and the best one as far as I am concerned. It is a depiction of the "Goodnight Loving Cattle Drive".

To enlarge these photos for a better look, just click on the photo.

Do you see the cowboy and the horse to the right? Doyle actually modeled for this scene.

The horse is Joelle's but it also looks like Clyde.

We invited Joelle and her husband Tracy to attend the rodeo one night with us. Afterward, as we were leaving the arena Joelle asked Doyle to kneel down in the dirt and act like he was drinking water from a stream. She said she needed a model for the mural she was working one.  He obliged but he wasn't sure how this was going to help her.

Here's a close up of that section of the mural. See the resemblance?! Incredible!

So know we have a very personal interest in the mural in more than one way!

In this view you can see the Baker Hotel in the background. Pretty cool huh?!


Have a good one!