Fuel Up Chicago I was almost a little

I was almost a little too enamored of the initial underpainting because it looked like a wonderful rainbow abstract to me

But this subject stayed with me because of its iconic imagery

That magical experience of having something flow through me is a feeling that I've only occasionally recaptured since

I saw the magical potential of escape

Lake Santeetlah sparkles each October with gorgeous fall foliage

Fuel Up Chicago I was almost a littleYou know how you drive past the same things around your town and throughout your daily routines? For me, this constant is a MapCo gas station near my home in Knoxville, Tennessee. So, the odds are in my favor to catch it with spectacular light. And that's exactly what happened one evening this past summer after an evening rain. I love combining Mother Nature with the mundane manmade.