Winters native’s “Art and Soul” on display at Turkovich winery

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Turkovich Family Wines will host Winters native Rosanne Seitz’s new works in the art exhibit “Art and Soul: Landscapes of Yolo County,” featuring new watercolors of Yolo County scenery from May 6 through July 7.

The public is invited to a wine reception with the artist in attendance taking place Saturday, May 6 from 2–5 p.m. at the Turkovich Winery on Buckeye Road — one mile north of Russell Boulevard — 30471 Buckeye Rd., Winters. The show will continue from May 8 to July 7 at the Turkovich Wines Downtown Tasting Room in historic downtown Winters, 304 Railroad Ave. The Tasting Room is open daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The Historical Society of Winters will receive a portion of art sales thru July 7.

Over 20 works reflect her childhood home’s rural vistas near Winters, Putah Creek and other local mountain and agricultural views from Yolo and Solano County. Seitz’s latest landscapes are inspired by personal sketches and agricultural experiences over the last two years on the Turkovich Family Ranch, east of Winters, painting for Yolo County Art and Ag program, plein air painting with other artists and solo excursions.

Seitz grew up on a ranch East of Winter Attending Winters schools, working around the ranch, and being involved with 4-H. This left her with impressions of the hard-working community and fostered a love for surrounding hillsides, wooded areas and farm structures that are now iconic in her art.

Following a 26-year teaching career and raising a family, Seitz pursued her passion to paint fulltime in San Luis Obispo County. She worked on location, (en plein air) and in her Grover Beach, California studio. Seitz also co-owned a successful gallery in downtown San Luis Obispo for 17 years and showed her San Luis Obispo Scenes there. Simultaneously she was showing her Winters watercolor scenes at various locations and continuously at Turkovich since its opening in 2010.

In 2021, Seitz moved back to the ranch while her house was being built on an acre in Davis next to her daughter’s family. “Art and Soul: Landscapes of Yolo County” is a testimonial to Seitz’s reverence for her traditional farming and family roots. Seitz, a Turkovich family member, has special ties to the Winters wine business. Seitz’s nephew, a third-generation farmer, Christopher, and his wife, master winemaker,

Luciana have partnered to create an impressive winery and tasting room in their quaint town. Their growing business produces world-class small-lot wines and sparkling wine among the golden hills, oak trees, and warm California sunshine depicted in Seitz’s exhibit.

Seitz chose the Historical Society of Winters to benefit from this show because it is a nonprofit that captures her interest in local history and pays tribute to the land and people who lived in this special place.

Seitz has taught watercolor classes and done painting demonstrations. She is a Central Coast Watercolor Society Signature Member and an emeritus member of SLOPE (San Luis Outdoor Painters of the Environment), which raises awareness of natural environmental

Yolo Audubon offers field trip in April

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This month’s Yolo Audubon meeting features a lecture entitled “Flight Calls to Monitor Nocturnal Migration in the Central Valley.” Most songbird migration happens while we’re sleeping. Warblers, sparrows and other birds pass overhead during their nocturnal flights and make short calls as they fly by, referred to as nocturnal flight calls. The basics of how bird migration can be monitored using audio recordings of these nocturnal flight calls will be discussed. Preliminary results of a study assessing migration timing and intensity will also be shared. The study focuses primarily on common species, such as Lazuli Bunting, Yellow Warbler, Wilson’s Warbler, and Swainson’s Thrush, that regularly make nocturnal flight calls during migration.

This lecture will be presented by Rob Furrow and Cameron Tescher. Furrow is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at UC Davis and Cameron is a fouth-year student at UC Davis, majoring in Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology.

The meeting will be held on April 19 at 7 p.m. via Zoom.

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For details on how to join the meeting go to: yoloaudubon.org or facebook.com/yoloaudubonsociety.

On Sunday, April 16, Sonjia Shelly and Ryan Janke will lead a field trip to Bobcat Ranch. This sprawling blue oak woodland property sits in the hills of the coastal range just north of Berryessa Gap. The hills will be

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