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Tom and I got up at 0'Dark-thirty and headed from Snowmass to the Maroon Bells to catch the sunrise hitting those formidable peaks. As we were leaving to go get a much needed breakfast we hit the brakes to get this shot. I thought I would paint it. I still may. It was taken more for reference. But sometimes, a photo just takes itself.

Parts of my story are integral to why I do what I do, what motivates me and the emotions and ideas I am trying to convey through my work. CS Lewis said, in Till We Have Faces... The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing, to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from, my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing...The longing for home...For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. My mother told people the first thing I ever drew was a horse before I was three in the dust on the kitchen floor of the little white clapboard parsonage in the North Woods of Wisconsin. In 1963, our family took a trip Out West to Vancouver, BC,...