Beyond the gates of the Jentel cattle ranch, my artistic journey will travel on.

How fitting it was to be here at the water's edge for the past month. The perfect time to think about art and place and for place to affect my art. Today is the last day of residency. Sad. I'll miss my bright and spacious studio. I'll miss the gentle landscape. I'll miss new friends. I'll miss Lower Piney Creek, a creek that was my spiritual guide each day and encouraged me to move forward with my art even when I had great doubts about it. But I do have the Clark Fork River to return to, and I'll find ways to appreciate it more than I have before.

My blog will probably go on hiatus for a while, but I thank you for reading. Feel free to send a brief (or long) comment, just so that I know who was out there following along with my experience. I'd love to "hear" from you.

Here in northeastern Wyoming, the changing colors of spring are subtle and quiet. I love the personality of this landscape. I will miss it. But I do have western Montana to return to. It's personality is a little more outspoken, but it lets me be.

All things come to an end, and some of it goes in the garbage.

The ubiquitous color of early May.

I couldn't resist a quick and little creekscape.

During the evenings or at night, here at Jentel, when my physical energy has been spent on painting, I go back to my "map" drawings. This piece is ink on vellum and approximately 3" by 4." It is The Heart of the Matter, and is a piece in preparation for a show Pamela Caughey and I will have at The Brink Gallery in Missoula in September. Here, I am only showing this piece from our upcoming show. (I don't want to give away our show ahead of time.)

Check out Pamela's work here.