April 2011: Great Escapes


Our Features


Country Roads magazine April 2011

ON THE COVER

Soaring to New Heights
Oil, 24" x 30"
by Elayne Kuehler

“Nature is the best teacher,” maintains Elayne Kuehler, a Baton Rouge artist with a passion for capturing beautiful things directly from life. But Kuehler painted this vista—a beach on Florida’s Anna Maria Island, from a photograph, “because clouds just move too quickly.” Painting primarily still lifes and Louisiana landscapes, Kuehler describes herself as a romantic realist, “because I think that, with so many bad things in the world, it’s very reviving to see the beauty that’s out there, too. It’s important to me to find that beauty and capture it. And share it.”
See more of Kuehler’s still-lifes, landscapes, and beach scenes at Taylor Clark Gallery in Baton Rouge, The Garden District Gallery in New Orleans, and at www.elaynekuehler.com.







Pensacola Beach
An Empty Beach is a Good Beach
by James Fox-Smith

Mini Golf in Orange Beach
A Lilliputian Holiday
by Dale Irvin

It's Spring Migration
For bird watchers, April is the hottest month of the year
by Harriet Pooler

French Night at Madidi
And the idea of Clarksdale
by Alex V. Cook



Our Regulars

Editorial Reflections
by James Fox-Smith


The Good Feast
New Orleans' Urban Gardens
by Brenda Maitland

Sauvignon Blanc
by Steve Staples

Dining in Mobile
by Bonnie Warren

Recipes


Folk Wisdom
The Southern Flying Squirrel

by Lucile Bayon Hume


Antiquarians
Addicted to Art Deco

by Ruth Laney


Really Listening
Jack Kelly

by Elodie Pritchartt


Lawnchair Gardeners
Easter Lilies

by Ed O'Rourke, Jr. and Leon Standifer


Weekends Away
Meridian, Mississippi

by Sam Irwin


Inns and B & Bs
A Resource Guide

Cultural Icons
Marlin Miller's Katrina Sculptures

by Dale Irvin