10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” -Robert Wyland
Red Laughter
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
“Earth Laughs in Flowers” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Salt Pond
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper. Plein air
Salt Pond Beach – Kauai, Hawaii
I’m Crowing!
8″x10″ pastel on sanded paper
“A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.” -Muhammad Ali
Launch on Every Wave
14″x11″ pastel on sanded paper
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” -Henry David Thoreau
Sunshine Valley
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
I have left the intimidating mountains of Colorado, and am delighting in the more familiar mountains of NM, the light is incomparable.
Flowers Young and Old
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
On the trail to Chasm Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” -Laura Ingles Wilder
These flowers are a hikers delight above tree line, like hikers, they come in all shapes and sizes.
Fire in the Sky
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
I got up at 3am and hiked hard uphill for hours to earn this sunrise. I could hear John Denver singing “Rocky Mountain High” as I watched these colors change he was writing about a meteor shower, but this sure did look like fire in the sky, so I sang it anyways.
Occasion for Hope
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper”The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” -John Buchan
Trout for Dinner
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paperPlein air of fly fishing in turquoise lake. Beautiful day! My cast iron skillet awaits.
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