paintandsimple

  
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

  
8×10 oil on panel, plein air

  
8×10 oil on panel, plein air

  
6×6 oil on panel, plein air

  
8×10 oil on panel, plein air

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.” -Aldo Leopold

My husband spends his time in town pouring over maps looking for these blank spaces.  Our family has many trail miles, fresh rasberry stained clothes, blisters, paintings, and fantastic memories to show for all his hard work.

  
8×10 oil on panel

Beautiful sunrise, Abiquiu Lake

  8×10 oil on panel plein air
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your element in each moment.”       — Henry David Thoreau 

  
16×20 oil on panel

  
16×16 oil on panel

“In someone’s darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.”–Richelle E. Goodrich