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

The birds of the Amazon are ubiquitous.‍

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.

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

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

The sky above and the sea below filled with life.

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

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.

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.

Storm moving out to sea.

A Matisse favorite blown up to giant size.

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

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

The power of big nature based on elements of the South Pacific.

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

All bark and no bite…um, maybe not.

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

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.

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

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

I know there is one in there somewhere.

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

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

Full blooded intensity of big nature sky and water.

Irish coast inspiration.

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

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

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

The ultimate charm of the American Midwest landscapes.

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

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

Wish I could…

From the cool green depths to the sky...

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

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

A golf course on the moon???

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

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

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

Spring runoff and seven lace-like waterfalls.

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

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

Everything is changing, the light, the mood.

Three stalwart trees guarding the point.

On the horizon is the flat and wide bay.

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

Where you will go after living a good life.

Felt like it painted itself on its’ own.