“Fall at Shiloh”
This painting was a Top 100 Mini winner for the Arts for the Parks juried show this year. In the past I seldom painted landscapes but am really getting a taste for them. In this painting I wanted to emphasize the quiet stillness of this place. I hope to show the reverence one feels walking here. I have just finished a painting of a river in Kenya and in painting the animals, I saw there this year. I'm adding more small landscapes behind them in an attempt to tell more of their story.

It’s raining and gray here today but warm enough to keep the windows open. The colors of fall are so vivid it feels as if you are in a kaleidoscope. The rain washes and darkens the leaves bring out the pigment. Our home is in the center of a forest, bordered on one side by a lake. Oaks, maples, birches, elms and aspen are quilted together and interspersed with the darkest of greens from fir and pine. All of this can be seen from almost any room in our home. More and more of the view of the lake can be seen every day a the trees loose their leaves.