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This Year…Kiss at CAMPS

Delicious food and dancing all weekend long!

Special Menu on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The Evening’s Special Menu

First Course:
Medley of Winter Greens
With Caramelized Pecans,
Winter Apple & Blue Cheese and Raspberry Vinaigrette

Choice of Entrée:
Roasted New York Strip with Fresh Dungeness Crab
Chive Whipped Potatoes and Béarnaise Sauce
Pan Seared Fresh Sea Scallops
Served on a Bed of Bacon Leek Risotto
Parmesan Crusted Prawn-Stuffed Chicken Breast
Served with Creamy Lobster Sauce atop Soft Polenta

Dessert
Belgium Dark Chocolate Torte with White Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Music:
Richard Matranga

$55.00 per person
plus tax and service charge

Landscape

Ray Roberts is one of California’s most respected, recognized and awarded Plein Air artists. He recently won the Gold Medal for “Best Painting” at the California Art Club and the Artists’ Choice Award, the highest accolade from fellow artists, at three major Southwest art events. He is best known for his seascapes, figurative work, and majestic views of California and the Southwest. Ray’s vibrant use of color, bold textures, and sensitivity to shifting patterns of light give life and movement to his paintings. They are to be experienced, not merely observed.

Inspired by such early California impressionists as Hanson Puthuff, William Wendt, and William Ritschel, Ray seeks to capture the luminous, golden light and the magnificent, vanishing landscapes of his native state. Like his other great hero, Maynard Dixon, Ray shares a reverence for the land and a marked spirituality in his work.

Ray grew up in an Orange County with orange groves, before the days of freeways and sprawling housing developments. It has given him an enduring affection for the untamed, undeveloped California of his youth. The Art Center is where Ray met his wife, impressionist painter Peggi Kroll. While dating, the two of them would go out nightclubbing, to sketch rather than dance! It has been a successful partnership ever since.

Ray and Peggi now live with their three children on a 20 acre ranch in Angel’s Camp, an old California gold rush town, surrounded by the oak-studded hills which he frequently paints.

krollroberts.com

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Each part of the West has its own distinctive characteristics that encompass geography, history, and culture. Lorna Dillon, a native Californian, now living in Columbia, CA, sets her paintings in rural California. The influence of the cowboys and vaqueros and their honest horsemanship is so classical that their legacy comes to life under her brush.

As a child, Dillon was intrigued by paintings in her family home. Her fascination was profound, and the seed was planted. It lay dormant until the late 70s when Lorna took up painting to see if her interest could be developed. She followed a long and laborious path filled with much trial and error, studying the styles, composition and techniques of other artists whose work she admired.

Gradually her style developed and her interests aimed her for the western art genre. Livestock trade shows did double duty as both a source of subjects and sales. There she learned more about the animals and their various characteristics, sold a lot of art, gained discipline and brush mileage, and, most importantly, Lorna says, “I met a lot of wonderful people in the livestock industry. ” The ranching life felt very natural to her, and she found the ambiance warm and genuine. Success and her reputation in the field grew.

After many years of this self-taught effort, workshops became a springboard for her to really begin to mature as an artist. Many well-known regional shows in the western states led to her inclusion in the prestigious Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City for the past six years. That event has been “the pinnacle of my career” according to Dillon, “and I thank God for the guidance to make it all possible”.

lornadillon.com

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Inspired by her children she paints beach scenes and other aspects of their lives. She also breaks away from the conventional still life by painting scenes of cosmetics and the occasional coffee cup or slab of butter. Peggi’s work gives us a new appreciation of our own daily life.

Admire the tallest, most magnificently decorated tree in Calaveras County! Dine by the glow of the warm fire…
Enjoy holiday cheer and live music on Friday and Saturday nights. The dining room glistens and is beautifully decorated with greenery and boughs.

Choose from our regular restaurant lunch and dinner menus or enjoy:

GLORIOUS HOLIDAY BUFFETS
Prepared for groups of 15 or more.

Roasted Pork Loin with Port Glaze or Grilled Chicken with Herbal Cream Sauce
along with Apple-Almond Stuffing, Creamy Mashed and Sauteed Green Beans
Bread and butter, Winter Green Salad, Cranberry Iced Tea and Petit Christmas Cookies
Lunch: $12.95 Dinner: $18.95 plus tax and service charge

HOLIDAY DINNER SPECIALS
Roasted Pork Loin, Truffled Risotto, Stuffing & Plum Port Sauce $18.95

WEEKENDS
Slow Roasted Prime Rib of Beef with Traditional Horseradish Cream $22.95/$26.95

CHAMPAGNE BUFFET MENU
FRESH SEASONAL FRUITS AND STRAWBERRY BASKET
DELECTABLE PASTRIES
SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH CHEDDAR CHEESE AND FRESH HERBS
CAMPS EGGS BENEDICT
SIDES OF COOL, FRESH “FIRECRACKER” SALMON WITH CRACKERS
FRENCH TOAST WITH PECANS AND PURE MAPLE SYRUP
RICOTTA CHEESE BLINTZES WITH FRESH FRUIT SAUCE
HICKORY SMOKED BACON AND COUNTRY SAUSAGE
GOLDEN BREAKFAST POTATOES
A VARIETY OF THREE SALADS
CHICKEN PICATTA WITH PENNE PASTA
PRIME RIB OF BEEF WITH ROSEMARY AND NATURAL JUICES
DESSERT DISPLAY

PRICE INCLUDES:
ORANGE JUICE, COFFEE, SPARKLING WINE AND MIMOSAS

$26.95 PER PERSON PLUS TAX AND TIP
CHILDREN UNDER 10 YEARS OLD HALF PRICE: $13.50
CHILDREN UNDER FOUR: FREE
(209) 729-8181

Thursday, November 25, 2010
Dinner is served from 2:00 PM until 7:00 PM.

SALAD
Winter Greens Tossed with Champagne Vinaigrette
Sliced Pears, Bits of Blue & Caramelized Pecans

ENTRÉE
Choose From One:
Black Forest Ham Glazed with Honey & Dijon
Roast Turkey with Traditional Gravy
Roasted Prime Rib of Beef with a Sauce of Natural Juices
Seared Salmon with Béarnaise Sauce

All Entrees are Served with:
Molasses Scented Sweet Potatoes Topped with Sweet Coconut & Pecans
Buttery Whipped Potatoes and Green Beans, Orange & Cranberry Relish
Apple, Walnut & Sage Stuffing, Bread & Sweet Butter

DESSERT
Choose One:
Warm Cinnamon Apple Cobbler & Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Traditional Roast Pumpkin Pie with Brandied Whipped Cream
Pilgrim Pecan Pie Topped with Carmel and Pillows of Whipped Cream
Hot Coffee or Tea

$26.95 per person, $14.50 Children 10 & under
Free for 5 and under
209-729-8181