Cloudswept on the Cottonwood Trail, Sleeping Bear Dunes
Silk painting, 10 x 8 inches, Private collection
Lake Michigan brings dramatic weather to Sleeping Bear Dunes. Cottonwood trees eek out a fragile existence in the sandy soil.
Being Birch
Silk painting, 8 x 10 inches, Private collection
The trail to Pyramid Point overlook in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore leads through a grove of birch trees. Here is a dark and intimate place, a place ripe for the imagination. This tree appeared to be inhabited by the wisdom of the forest.