What Fall feels like...

Falling or Flying?

The trees in front of the cabin are raining small yellow leaves throughout the day now!  Not to be confused with the yellow butterflies: It caught me by surprise at first, when the falling leaves danced in the wind and then playfully flew away!

This painting was created after finding a blue butterfly wing in the garden this summer. I took the artistic approach here, letting the blue highlights dominate. The actual wing could appear quite dark up close, but it was the reflected color that caused me to leave the garden path to retrieve the specimen.

4 x 6 oil on gallery wrap canvas

Sun to the Left - Moon to the Right!

I was offered a chance for a jeep ride at "Day in the West" in Sedona yesterday. We loaded up and took the old Schnebley Hill Road off into the hills, up on the Rim as sunset approached. What magnificent landscape set ablaze by the sun! Still, as magnificent as the setting Sun itself looked in the distance, it was the rising Moon that created the breathless moment for me. And what a vantage point...to have Sun on my left shoulder and Moon on my right with the amazing copper earth folding like beautiful fabric in between! Aaah!