I know there is one in there somewhere.

All bark and no bite…um, maybe not.

Spring runoff and seven lace-like waterfalls.

Visiting the Amazon region in Peru makes you think all kinds of new thoughts.

A Berber man composing his headwrap in the wind. A commission by a fellow traveler to the Sahara in Morocco.

A landscape I never actually experienced in life came alive on this canvas. A deep sense of peace and serenity. All is right with the world here on Cherry Lane.

The birds of the Amazon are ubiquitous.‍

I have no idea how this title came to be. But It is a soothing painting.

A Matisse favorite blown up to giant size.

Like a giant and soft watercolor with a spiritual quality that changes with the ambient light.

Trees in perfect synch with each other. Are they all related? They must be.

The sun, the focus of all life on our planet.

In moviemaking parlance, “magic hour” is that alluring transition from afternoon to evening — twilight — when the world of our perceptions changes.

The sky above and the sea below filled with life.

Painted after a major surgery reaffirming my love for the beach and ocean swimming.

Everything is changing, the light, the mood.

The ultimate charm of the American Midwest landscapes.

Sometimes a painting is made and lives for many years and then the artist chooses to obliterate it and create something completely new and different…although there can be ideas from the previous painting that survive. This is true for this painting.

I guess they are friends of the shark, until they aren’t.

I, along with a group of people, once witnessed a series of UFOs in the night sky over Lake Cayuga in Ithaca, NY. We had many questions, but very few answers.

Irish coast inspiration.

Wish I could…

On the horizon is the flat and wide bay.

The beach, where it all begins and ends for me.

Full blooded intensity of big nature sky and water.

From the cool green depths to the sky...

I am always impressed by a stand of trees. All part of the same family no doubt. Fascinating.

The flat landscape of the East End of Long Island produces calming images of reverie and quiet.

One of a series of paintings of the ever-shifting dunes in the Moroccan Sahara.

Hundreds of thousands of parakeets swarming at dawn preparing to cross the water into the rainforest for the day’s events.

Dusk in Austin, Texas produces those alluring high desert scapes, the dust amplifying the end of daylight.

From a deep place in the unconscious describing an untouched place of serenity in deep woods.

A moment of stunning beauty, as the mighty Delaware River snake it’s way though rural Pennsylvania on it’s way to the Atlantic.

Three stalwart trees guarding the point.

A metaphysical moment in nature where no human can deny the serenity and beauty of nature.

Early morning mist over the ocean.

Storm moving out to sea.

A special moment if you are lucky enough to witness.

Off in the distance living their best tree life, undisturbed except for conditions which they are designed to endure. Such a great sense of peace.

We are all on our way somewhere. All things are on their way somewhere.

Something powerful about the confluence of two great bodies of waters.

The warm morning glow of dawn in summer, a signal of a new day with fresh possibilities.

End of a long day, time to take stock of all the good things that happened.

Felt like it painted itself on its’ own.

Where you will go after living a good life.

Contemplative and calming. Part of the “Sun Series" of paintings.

The Amazon region is a place of life filled with all kinds of colorful critters.

A golf course on the moon???

I think about the 4,000 mile solo hitchhiking trip I took in 1972 to West Coast and back.

American farmlands have been the bedrock of so many families with the same American dream.