Singin' The Blues

The white crowned sparrow is a summer songster.  For those of you just emerging from the snow pack, hang in there, summer's coming!   I'll be working "outside of Glacier" more now so if you miss seeing new art work from me, switch over to my painting blog.....click on the "Picture This" link to the right.  My show of GNP paintings has gotten great reviews and several paintings have sold, hooray!  

Legacy of Ice

This view of Grinnell glacier and its valley from high on the continental divide is a bittersweet panorama in this era of global warming.  The remnant glacier with it's iceberg filled lake and hanging valley falling to the chain of lakes that represents the final path of melting ice on its way to the Hudson Bay drainage.   I feel so lucky to be able to hike up here and to appreciate a characteristic of the landscape that will very soon be no more.  I included the clouds not only to improve the composition but to symbolize the cycle of water and renewal that will continue even while we insist on messing it up.  This one is for those of you who can't get to this awesome place where hope fills up the clouds and pours down the mountainsides.