In 1987, my buddy Steve and I were watching TV when a news report reported that Jim Reinders had built a replica of England’s Stonehenge near the city of Alliance, Nebraska. We decided that one day we would visit Carhenge. College came and went. Steve moved to Colorado and I to Minnesota. Years past. More years
Plein air painter Neil Sherman first told me the name of The Tombolo. He heard it from painter Howard Sivertson. I can imagine Howard walking the beach in his red suspenders to paint the spot. The Tombolo is one of three iconic north shore islands on Lake Superior in Minnesota. The most famous is Hollow Rock
My first strong memory of a canoe was paddling a beat-up, old, fiberglass canoe on the backwaters of the Mississippi River. Many adventures ensued. Kirk Wipper, the founder of the Canadian Canoe Museum, captured what a canoe means to me when he said, “You have to do what you can, do your best with what you are.
I recently did my typical year-end post where I talk about how my year went as an artist: what worked, what challenges I had, how I feel about my work in that year. In that post (see: My Favorite Shots of 2017), I also picked one shot from each month that was my favorite shot. It
Each year I like to look back and see how things went. In 2017, I put a lot on my plate. It was the year that I was on the road the most since back when I was 25. I spent about 120 days on the road and put just under 36,000 miles on my
