Shade, Water, and Big Parking Lots

Here are some well-planted trees, beside the track at Del Norte High School in Albuquerque: Not only are they nice big trees that provide a lot of shade, but they are planted right where either fans would be watching an event or where the athletes would be…

Thoughts on Better Cities: Big Trees

It has been a really long time since I've posted here, but I needed a better platform than Facebook for this post so here I am. I used to major in architecture before teaching saved me. I love architecture, but I might have been even happier in urban planning.…

New paintings!!

The Western Screech Owl has moved back into the birdhouse.

New painting: Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains.

Sandhill cranes heading home in the sky above me. See you next year, friends.

Donate to 300 Young Artists Need Your Support, organized by Andy Young We are raising money for the last stage of our fabulous student art project at our scho… Andy Young needs your support for 300 Young Artists Need Your Support

March is here; we have one month to raise money for our big art project at my school- 300 students creating a giant art installation celebrating words they've been learning this year! If you can help, please do! If you can share, please do! Click below to learn more or to donate: gofund.me/c7ad422a

For quite some time I've had a feather quill pen and the appropriate ink, but I've never used them. So my new policy is that I have to use them for grocery lists. No pen or pencil, no typing into my phone. I can use them for other things, too, but it's mandatory for grocery lists.

Preparing the garden for red clover, with my bestest gardening buddy, the broadfork

Golden Eagle in the Ladd Waterfowl area, close to Socorro.

1.7 billion year old schist (I think), a remnant of an island that joined the continent almost that long ago, along with a long arc of fellow islands. The weakened scar of this event is the Jemez lineament, a chain of volcanoes stretching from Show Low to Raton.

A student today asked me if I'd seen Kendrick Lamar's performance last night. She added, for clarification, that was part of some "football thing". Some day our grandkids will say to our great-grandchildren, "Did you know there used be a football game in between all these cool commercials?"

I got to pondering why a kid's meal has to have stuff in it, and then I thought that maybe a third tier of meals is missing: the Adult Meal. You'd have the regular meal, with just food, the kid's meal with kid's stuff, and the Adult Meal with...Adult stuff. You can decide what such stuff might be.

YouTube video by Andy Young 300 Young Artists Need Your Support!

We've had some more donations this week, which is awesome!! Watch the video to learn more about our project, and if you can help us out, please do! youtu.be/T9BBBltpWmE

YouTube video by Andy Young 300 Young Artists Need Your Support!

We've had more donations this week, which is excellent! Check out the link below to learn about the awesome art project we are doing at our school, and donate if you can. If you can't donate, share the link with everyone you know! Thanks! #childrensart #newmexico #albuquerque youtu.be/T9BBBltpWmE

Apple cinnamon twist bread!

Donate to 300 Young Artists Need Your Support, organized by Andy Young We are raising money for the last stage of our fabulous student art project at our scho… Andy Young needs your support for 300 Young Artists Need Your Support

Here I am again with my weekly fundraising post! We are trying to raise money for the final step in our BIG BIG BIG art project the kids at our school are doing. You can watch a video explaining the project by clicking the picture below, and you can donate by clicking there, too: gofund.me/b2e5d6e2

Cinnamon-Star Bread going in the oven. Yum! #baking #breakfast #kingarthurflour

YouTube video by Andy Young 300 Young Artists Need Your Support!

We've had a couple of donations, which is excellent! But we still need many, many more! Check out the video about the project (just 6 minutes!) and donate if you can. Thanks! #kidsart #installationart #artforkids #newmexico #albuquerque youtu.be/T9BBBltpWmE

A street art tour of the Barelas neighborhood in Albuquerque. #streetart #burque #barelas

Bernalillo County bought one of my paintings! Here it is hanging on the 7th floor downtown. #newmexicoart #newmexico #landscape art #albuquerque

Some recent paintings. www.andyyoungfineart.com
#newmexico #landscapeart #southwestart

YouTube video by Andy Young 300 Young Artists Need Your Support!

We are raising money for a giant installation art project made by New Mexico elementary school students to celebrate the vocabulary they've learned. You can learn more from this video, and maybe donate too!! youtu.be/T9BBBltpWmE #art #childrensart #installationart #newmexicoart #projectbasedlearning