Marsh No. 10

This one is still available! With or without the frame. (But I love the frame.)

Marsh No. 9

I never get sick of this view.

Marsh Study No. 2

Same view, different orientation, a little more detail. Off to the right, just out of the frame, is the site of the ongoing War With Beavers. (They want to plug up the culvert; we don't want them to--very complicated. I admit to a disloyal fondness for the opposing team.)
I can't stand the thought that if Michigan Potash gets its way, an enormous potash-mining operation may loom on the horizon of this pristine spot.

Marsh Study No. 1

This month I’ve been sort of fixated on this view of my beloved marsh. And I experimented a little. This first, quick little study is my dad’s birthday card. The experimental part is that, unlike my other landscapes, it’s acrylic. Hmm.

Cranberry Bog

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One of my favorite spots in the world… There aren’t really any cranberries growing here, but this beautiful little bog gets a cranberry color sometimes, and that’s what we call it. Occasionally in the summer you can sit on that far hillside and watch a beaver or two swimming around down below. This painting will also be at the Farmhouse show tomorrow!

Cocktail Hour

This baby’s a big one for me—24x36”. Nearing the end of a winter’s day on our wonderful marsh, before the snow came. I took lots of photos from this spot this winter, at all times of day. Evening and early morning were my favorite. I ended up painting early evening, with its promise of a warm house to return to, and a glass of wine. “Cocktail Hour” will be hanging at the Triumph Brewing Company of Princeton show as of April 14. 

Croton River at Quaker Bridge

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The Croton River is so lovely. I think because no matter where you are, you get a mix of glassy water and rapids, which makes for some nice light and dark contrasts. It’s especially apparent this time of year, when the leaves are off the trees, and all of those pesky colorful reflections are gone.

Evening

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OK, I’ve been whining a little bit about the continuing cold. But come July, when it’s 90 degrees, I’m going to be happy to look back at this painting and remember those lovely, crisp winter nights, walking home from a holiday party as night falls and the lights come on. Locals, do you see our own little dummy light right there in the center?

Upstate, Late Winter

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Here’s another large one. This is some out-of-the-way farmland just south of the Finger Lakes region, on a cold, bitter day, when the last of the snow was not in any mood to melt. Unless it sells in the next few days, this painting will be hanging in my show at the Flat Iron Gallery in Peekskill for the month of March. (Reception is Sunday; come on by!)

Cranberry Bog, Afternoon

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My favorite ski run used to come down through the woods and end at the far reaches of this scene. They logged the woods last year, so we had to establish a new run down through the adjoining forest. It’s pretty, but not as thrilling and terrifying as the old one. A few people should know exactly where this is.

Sugar Bush

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Sometimes when the trees are frosty, they look orange in the morning sun. 

On the Way to the Sugar Bush

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In warmer weather, there’s a good morel mushroom spot in the distance there. But I’m not telling exactly where.

Evening

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Again looking south, this time from the path at the end of the marsh. I always like to stop here and watch the water rushing down into the culvert under my feet, and then out the other side, under the ice and on its way. I like to imagine who is alive under the ice, and who might be in the grasses and snow, waiting for me to leave.

Looking South

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I’ve been working on some larger landscapes recently. This is another view of the cedar swamp, skiing home across the marsh in the afternoon. It’s always a nice, serene way to end a ski, after managing the dicey little hill down onto the ice without crashing or putting an eye out.

Unless it sells beforehand, this painting will be part of my upcoming show at the Flat Iron Gallery in Peekskill, NY. Opening reception March 2—save the date!

Sunrise

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The sun was just starting to come up behind the cedar swamp on this morning; it hadn’t yet reached the snowy marsh. Later in the day we discovered coyote tracks heading purposefully south out on the ice. 

Ski Trail

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Sometimes the light on the marsh is just spectacular. This was a super-dark sky above the sugar bush, with sun coming through a few clouds to light up the marsh in the foreground. (You can see a little ski trail coming across the snow toward home.)

Glancing Back

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As I was skiing home across the marsh, I turned and looked behind me toward the west. The clouds were backlit by the sun on its way down, with everything in shadow except their glowing edges.

Cedar Swamp, Late Afternoon

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This picture is from one of my last days in Michigan last week, coming back across the frozen marsh at the end of an afternoon ski, with a sky ranging from pale turquoise on the horizon to deep sky blue up above, with a faint, tiny crescent moon high over it all. This is one of my favorite spots on earth.