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Postcards from Texas(A Painting A Week)

View from Casa del Mar - Galveston

6″ x 8″ original oil on canvas panel

Larry G. Lemons - Copyright 2007

This small painting is from a photograph that I took a few years ago from our balcony while on vacation with my family. Galveston is a beautiful place, but a little too humid for me. I’m more acclimated to our “dry” heat. And I enjoy it even better under the comfort of refrigerated air.

You may have heard this one: A Texas bicyclist is not so much afraid of having a wreck on the pavement in the summertime due to road rash as he is afraid of cooking to death.