Softer Side

Colorado Autumn Blend Colorado was my home for 10 years; and there is just something about its beauty and positive spiritual energy that will always make me feel alive, free and humble to be able [...]

Floating in the Mist “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the [...]

Spirit of the Canyon “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into trees.” – John Muir  The Grand Canyon continues to be a landmark that [...]

Sunset on the Mesa Aren’t sunsets beautiful? Artists, musicians, poets, writers and of course all of us have been awestruck by the beauty and charm of a sunset. Whether we watch the sunset from a [...]

Into the Music – The Phantom of the Opera all began as a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909, to 8 January [...]

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”  ― John Lennon Dreaming. We all do it at some point of our life. But I am not talking about those dreams that [...]

Heavenly Day “The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly [...]

Reoccurring Facets The story of this painting has a couple of different facets to it. After I created this painting, I did not title it, nor photograph it for posting to my website or Facebook [...]

I believe that just because you can’t see angels, doesn’t mean they are not there. I have often experienced and felt that an angel has helped me escape a mishap or guided me along the right path. [...]

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully [...]