My parents, especially my mom, taught me to love picnics! Before I was of school age, on the first warm day of spring Mom would exclaim,...

Before American art became a force in the world of painting, subjects tended to be portraits, history, mythology, or architecture. It was...

My mom loved flowers! The rural yard of my childhood InSide the Back Mountain in Franklin Township was never a showplace garden, but it...

I always wanted to be an artist. I experienced my very first art lesson at age 11. I sat in a large room originally used as the front...

“Look at that sunset!” I yelled and took off running down Jackson Street in Cape May, New Jersey in my much younger days! My daughter...

“The fog comes on little cat feet…” wrote American poet Carl Sandburg. Fog can silently envelope a landscape. It can shroud it in...

It still lays in layers on the entire floor of Wyoming Valley underneath the Susquehanna River and climbs up the mountainsides, wrapping...

Aren’t old postcards fascinating? I especially love historical postcards from familiar places. High on my list, of course, are old...

Learning how to draw receding railroad tracks in one point perspective is one of the very first basic lessons for art students learning...

According to the artist Willem de Kooning, texture is a word that denotes the events of our lives. If he is correct, then the texture of...

Those of us who remember September 11, 2001 can never forget the intense blue skies of that infamous morning. InSide the Back Mountain...

“Go with the flow!” As a landscape painter, I observe the flow of seasonal and micro-seasonal images. As a lover of flowers, I enjoy the...

Summertime can be a season when laziness becomes almost respectable. Read a book on the porch. Take a nap in the lawn chair. Stroll in...

Seated in the bow of Peggy’s Wenonah canoe, I plunged my paddle into the crystalline current of the headwaters of the Susquehanna River,...

I sat quietly, engrossed in some of Mom’s old Ideals magazines which are filled with poetry and beautiful illustrations. That’s where I...

My rabbit collection includes many pieces. There’s an antique porcelain rabbit planter, a nearly three-foot-tall carved wooden rabbit I...

Dogs are said to be our best friends, our closest allies. They symbolize loyalty, friendship, and security. Did you know many famous...

Did you ever glance out the window as the world outside turns pink? It's one of my absolutely favorite atmospheric moments and I always...

Are you familiar with Claude Monet’s color-filled paintings of his neighbor’s haystacks covered in snow? Or his famous snow scene with a...

December 24, from morning through afternoon to night time, is one of my favorite days of the year. It begins with our 47-year tradition...