“What artist would paint a deathbed scene with the vibrant and vital palette nature uses? Perhaps death possesses a grace that we who fear dying, who find it ugly and even obscene, cannot see. How shall we understand nature’s testimony that dying itself—as devastating as we know it can be—contains the hope of a certain beauty?” —Parker Palmer, an excerpt from On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old

Here is a series of recent watercolor paintings, inspired by fall colors. Hope you enjoy them!

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Otter Lake, Wisconsin Northwoods

Trees near Enterprise Lake, Wisconsin Northwoods

Southwest Minnesota Park trail

Lake Wenatchee State Park, Washington State

Lake Wenatchee State Park, Washington State

Wenatchee River, near the Grunewald Guild in Washington