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Doug Rutherford
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Landscape painter, cat lover, musician, actor, playwright. He/him.
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Standing tall.
#Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2100.
Painting of a solitary spruce above McIntyre Creek Canyon, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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It’s tough to work with a big lump in your way.
Large cat laying in front of my easel.
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Rock outcrop, Rabbit’s Foot Canyon.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2099.
Painting of a rock outcrop on the wall of Rabbit’s Foot Canyon, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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60 years ago today, the Berkshire Eagle published its story on the terrible crime that came to be known as the Alice’s Restaurant Massacre. Q
News clipping: • Youths Ordered of To Clean Up Rubbish Mess LEE - Because they couldn't find a dump open in Great Bar- Ar ca yc It: of rington, two youths threw a load of refuse down a Stockbridge hillside on Thanksgiving Day. ice Saturday, Richard J. Robbins. 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of gif $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish. Special Justice James E. Hannon ordered Re the youths to remove all • rubbish. They did the so Saturday / afternoon, following rain. a heavy Police Chief William J. Oban-hein of Stockbridge said later the youths found dragging the junk up the hillside much har- ¿der than throwing it down. He said he hoped their case would be an example to others who are careless about disposal of A.rubbish. The junk included a divan, plus nearly enough bottles, gar-bage, papers and boxes to fill their Volkswagen bus. *The stuff would take up at least half of a goodsized pickup truck," Chief Obanhein said. The rubbish was thrown into the Nelson Foote Sr. property on Prospect Street, a residential section of Stockbridge consisting largely of estates on the hill across from Indian Hilil School. Chief Obanhein told the court he spent "a very disagreeable two hours" looking through the ¿rubbish before finding a clue to who had thrown it there. He fi-mally found a scrap of paper bearing the name of a Great Barrington man. Subsequent investigation indicated Robbins and Guthrie had been visiting the Great Barrington man and had agreed to cart away the rubbish for him. They told the court that, when they found the Barrington dump closed, they drove around and then disposed of the junk by tossing it over the Stockbridge hillside.
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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The true way to a woman’s heart: nose rubs.
Contented looking cat having her nose rubbed.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Golden Horn Mountain.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2098.
Painting of Golden Horn Mountain, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, at sunrise.
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Nares Mountain.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2097.
Painting of Nares Mountain, looking across Crag Lake, Yukon, Canada, on a late winter afternoon.
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Fox Lake.
#Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2096.
Painting of trees on the shore of Fox Lake, Yukon, Canada.
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Boreal forest twilight.
#Watercolour on paper, 16x20 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2095.
Painting of a spruce forest at twilight.
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Cyborg?
Photo of me with an eye shield following cataract surgery.
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Surgery or not, I didn’t feel like being shut out. Here’s another tiny one.
Moon.
#Watercolour on paper, 4x6 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2094.
Monotone painting of poplar trees and a bright moon.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Me and Furball watching the hockey game.
Large cat laying on my chest, snuggling.
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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I was given a block of a different paper I wanted to try, and I have a lot to do today before cataract surgery tomorrow.
Lights.
#Watercolour on paper, 4x6 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2093.
Painting of spruce trees silhouetted by the northern lights.
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Mount Cairnes.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2092.
Painting of Mount Cairnes, Yukon, Canada, at twilight.
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Sunset trees.
#Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2091.
Painting of spruce trees silhouetted by a sunset.
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Pilot Mountain.
#Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2090.
Painting of Pilot Mountain, Yukon, Canada.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Hoarfrost tassels on a flag.
Hoarfrost on the edge of a flag.
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Resting up for #Caturday.
Two cats curled up in a cat bed.
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Kluane Lake.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2089.
Painting of Kluane Lake, Yukon, Canada, at early morning.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Too many appointments today so I just had time for little one.
Little Peak.
#Watercolour on paper, 5x7 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2088.
Painting of Little Peak, Yukon, Canada, on a fall afternoon.
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Coffee Lake.
#Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2087.
Painting of Coffee Lake, Yukon, Canada
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Evening sky, Haeckel Hill.
#Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2086.
Painting of a silhouetted spruce in front of an evening sky over Haeckel Hill, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Of the 115,000 Canadians killed in WWI, WWII, Korea, and since, only 76,000 have known burial locations.
One of the things I find most sad on Remembrance Day are the ones who never returned and have never been found.
Gravestone from Tyne Cot Cemetery near Passchendaele, Belgium. The epitath is: A Canadian soldier of the Great War. Known unto God.
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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So, this was a while ago.
Photo of me in my combats from 1979.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Kathleen River.
#Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2084.
Painting of the Kathleen River, Yukon, Canada.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM