I often find myself fascinated by Nature and the many ways in which we experience the majesty of the natural world. I am most intrigued by those atmospheric conditions that produce fog, haze, bursts of light, and the myriad transitions in between. Beyond a realistic rendition, I see my paint- ings as windows onto the landscape through which I hope to invoke in the viewer the emotions and moods that inspire me, and to facilitate the viewer’s experience with Na- ture’s deepest mysteries. As I travel through the great American Northeast, I am taken back to my earliest memo- ries of the fields and untamed forests of Eastern Europe. It was among these scenes from my youth that I first experienced the bright light of winter, the fleeting warmth of long summer days, and the great in between that is the core of our sense of time and transition.