{"id":1218,"date":"2008-12-07T18:43:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T02:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2008-12-08T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T05:30:12","slug":"chileno-valley-through-the-eyes-of-a-resident-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Chileno Valley Ranch as depicted by a rancher-artist who lives there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition of plein air paintings by Chileno Valley artist and rancher Sally Gale opened Saturday in the gallery of Toby&#8217;s Feed Barn. Showing along with Sally&#8217;s exhibit, which is titled <em>Fall Views of Chileno Valley Ranch<\/em>, are aerial images of Marin County landscapes by photographer Bill Dewey.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1215\" alt=\"100_1071_1_2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/100_1071_1_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sally (at right) talks with guests Norman Masonson and Larken Bradley at the opening reception. The painting in the center is titled <em>Sally&#8217;s Dahlias<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"100_0549.jpg\" id=\"image1214\" title=\"100_0549.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/100_0549.jpg\" \/>Sally Gale and her husband Mike live in this Victorian ranch house on Chileno Valley Road. The home, which had long been in Sally&#8217;s family, was decrepit to the point of being uninhabitable before Sally and Mike restored it during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1217\" alt=\"100_1077_1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/100_1077_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All of Sally&#8217;s many works on display were painted in the immediate vicinity of their ranch house, her husband Mike (at center) points out. It&#8217;s worth noting, however, that in the immediate vicinity of the house are barns and other ranch buildings, along with corrals, pastures, orchards, a flower garden, stands of cypress trees, and a creek.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1216\" alt=\"100_1074_1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/100_1074_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Gales sell grass-fed (as opposed to feedlot) beef directly to families; there are no middlemen involved. On 600 acres, they graze approximately 100 cows with their calves, as well as raise sheep and poultry. They also grow a variety of organic apples. Here Karen Ward, a guest at the opening reception, admires a painting of the Gales&#8217; barn.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will continue at the galley in Point Reyes Station until Dec. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition of plein air paintings by Chileno Valley artist and rancher Sally Gale opened Saturday in the gallery of Toby&#8217;s Feed Barn. Showing along with Sally&#8217;s exhibit, which is titled Fall Views of Chileno Valley Ranch, are aerial images of Marin County landscapes by photographer Bill Dewey. Sally (at right) talks with guests Norman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-marin-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}