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I have dreams at night about locations like this. This was painted after a recent trip to the North Salem Open Land Foundation in North Salem, New York. I had the feeling that I was walking through a museum devoted to the rural American landscape of the past. The property was owned years ago by a man named Paterno who raised bulls which explains the very picturesque stone walls which snake through the entire property.

I must apologize to Mr. Paterno for knocking down a section of one of his walls in my painting. It is a tribute to the skill of the people who put up the walls that they are still almost entirely intact. But I felt I wanted the viewer to have a way out to the meadow on the left and the beautiful tree just over the hill which is how I spent my time there...walking from meadow to meadow enjoying the sun and the quiet.