On the horizon is the flat and wide bay.

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

Irish coast inspiration.

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

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

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

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 ultimate charm of the American Midwest landscapes.

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.

Storm moving out to sea.

A special moment if you are lucky enough to witness.

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

The birds of the Amazon are ubiquitous.‍

A golf course on the moon???

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

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

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

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

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

A Matisse favorite blown up to giant size.

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

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

Where you will go after living a good life.

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

Felt like it painted itself on its’ own.

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

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

Full blooded intensity of big nature sky and water.

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.

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

All bark and no bite…um, maybe not.

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

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

A fanciful intergalactic event.

Like a dream, some things seem familiar and make sense while others are somewhat magical that might not make sense in the awake state.

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

Everything is changing, the light, the mood.

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

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

The Amazon rainforest is a striking and emotional place teeming with life, mystery, beauty, and danger.

Urban industry and city living.

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

The Hubble telescope locates a great nebulae…with all the same elements that comprise our planet and our bodies.

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

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

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

I know there is one in there somewhere.

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

Floating things makes sense but not in waking state.

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