The above image was made on the Porter Creek Trail near Gatlinburg.

  Convergence

  Signs of Spring

  Blossom Way  

 The dogwood blossoms had fallen and highlighted this trail through the Smoky Mountains.  This image was made on the Porters Creek Trail.    

 School Days

 This is the Island View School in Sevier County, Tennessee.  The school was named for the view of Buckingham Island in the French Broad River which can be seen across the road from the school.  

  Colors in the Night

The Great Smoky Mountain Wheel is 200 feet tall and each gondola can seat up to eight people.   

Mallory Fine Art participating Artists:

Christine Berg, Carole Blevins, Lisa Boardwine, Leila Cartier, Paul deMarrais, Tracy Ference, Nadya Warthen-Gibson, Quinn Hawkesworth, Rebecca Keays, Jeffrey Stoner, Suzanne Stryk, Kristi Taylor, William Tillson, Charles Vess and Bill Wysor

Blossoms and blooms

On the waft of morning mist,
the morning dew freshens the day
as birds' morning songs jumble
in a boiling pot of notes.

The heavy sweet scent of lilacs' bloom
takes me to where I once lived and
the white four-petaled flower on gnarled limbs
takes me to the dogwood days of my youth.

Daytime descends,
where limbs lace and
treetop branches brush the blush
of the evening sky.

As moments turn to days and
seasons to years,
memories remain of life
passed into past.

What's ahead
when the blossoms and blooms will once again
sweeten my nose and caress my eye and
sunrise and moonset bookend the morning sky? 

Introducing the 2015 edition to the Goats of Roan

Twigs and Leaves Gallery, Waynesville NC.

August 7, 2015

I hope you can join me at Twigs and Leaves gallery from 6pm-9pm for the official unveiling of the 2015 edition to my Goats of Roan collection.  This is a great time to visit Waynesville - the first Friday of every month from May through October is the Art After Dark gallery crawl.