14″X11″ pastel on sanded paper

Native prairie, or a mowed pasture? Either way, first I must paint the dew and morning light!

  
12″x9″ pastel on sanded paper

I love the light this time of year, it is beautiful.  It doesn’t feel like fall in the air yet, but you can see it in the shadows.  The autumnal rose twilight is nothing short of magic.  

October is the reason to live in Texas.

  
5×7 pastel on sanded paper, plein air

  
5×7 pastel on sanded paper

  
5×7 pastel on sanded paper

  
8×10 oil on panel, plein air

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
William Blake

  
7×5 pastel on sanded paper

  
5×7 pastel on sanded paper

The beauty is in its imperfections.

  
6×6 oil on panel, plein air

If it weren’t for the rocks it’s bed, the stream would have no music.

  
6×6 oil on panel
Sunrise

moon’s shell cracks – her yoke

falls on the edge of the sea

scrambled horizon