RED CEDAR SPRING

This is a painting of the Red Cedar River as it runs through the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing, Michigan. We've enjoyed many walks there during our daughter's years at MSU. She graduates next week! You go, Girl!

SHENANDOAH WILDFLOWERS

We were lucky enough to be able to be in Shenandoah National Park in the spring a few years ago and a photo from one of our hikes inspired this painting.

SPRING SKY

LAKE MICHIGAN

TOSEBO LAKEFRONT

Can't wait to spend some quality time up in Northern Michigan!

SPRING AT TOSEBO

Ah, spring!

VIEW UP TOSEBO HILL

This is a view of a path up the hill at Camp Tosebo in Onekama, Michigan- one of the most beautiful places on earth. With spring and summer coming on it's the perfect place to be!

EASTER JOY

This is a montage of photos I manipulated on the computer. It looks like the joy of the resurrection to me. Hope you have a wonderful Easter!

RED TULIPS

MONTE CARLO TULIPS

These Monte Carlo tulips are a resurrection image for me. How amazing that flowers like this can come from a little insignificant brown bulb! Happy Easter! Happy Spring!

SALVATION COLLAGE

This collage is titled Meditation on the Miracle of Redemption and Eternal Life. It's stitched together in some places like our lives are stitched together. In the messy stitching on the left, the paper is torn and reveals the gold of eternal life. The black and white can be the juxtaposition of good and evil/darkness and light, but in the squares on the bottom they are intended to be abstractions of the open tomb. I did this collage years ago after hearing a sermon where the minister pointed out that the cross wasn't in itself enough for salvation in Christ, the open tomb is essential. His resurrection is what sets us free! Alleluia! I wish you a blessed week, this Easter week.

SPIRAL JAZZ

This is another from a recent non-objective series. These are recent but not in the "painting-a-day" format that some bloggers do where they commit to posting a painting a day- Duane Keiser of A-Painting-a-Day@googlegroups.com is a classic in that form! Check it out! I'm not there yet! Maybe down the road.

BLUE MUSIC

Now that I look at this on the screen, I see a path of sorts here too. I was inspired by some of the nonobjective work of Georgia O'Keeffe.

CRUCIFORM JAZZ

This is a takeoff on some aerial photos I've been working on and the sign of the cross. Very Lenten!

PATH AT CRANBROOK-mixed media

Another morning, another path.

PATH AT PENTWATER

I'm looking at some of my older work and looking into a new direction. Someone said: it's the journey that's important, not the destination. Paths leading around corners are metaphors for the mystery of what comes next.

PATH AT TAHQUAMENON FALLS