"Fresh Tracks" 8x10 Snowy Forest Landscape Painting Countryside Scenes All part of the evening

All part of the evening routine

Each afternoon the breeze makes a shift in the valleys

The refuge there rears thousands of waterfowl each year and is a major stop over and wintering grounds for many of the Northern birds migrating downward each fall

this painting features a desert landscape from our trip to Utah

"Fresh Tracks" 8x10 Snowy Forest Landscape Painting Countryside Scenes All part of the evening"Fresh Tracks" I started this painting after taking a hike through the mountains nearby where I live. We had just received some snowfall which is a pretty common occurrence around here and something I'm fairly used to but every once in a while these moments arise where I'm just completely taken back and this was one of them. We had come around a couple corners on the trail and I began to notice the light shining through the trees and it was starting