Buttercup Philadelphia This is the second autumn

This is the second autumn landscape from the Great Smoky Mountains in this year's 25 Days of Minis

I'm not well suited to heat and humidity

I caught this moment near my home during the longest day of summer and I loved the feeling of joy and uplift

and angles

I admired her confident stride and grace of movement along the sidewalk

Buttercup Philadelphia This is the second autumnAfter several years of living in east Tennessee, I'm finally beginning to figure out where I like to go for outdoor painting. I discovered this beautiful vista across a horse pasture just north of my hometown of Knoxville. It was a splendid spring day with highs just into the 60s, and these billowing clouds had me at, "Hello." You can check out a time lapse of this painting in progress "out in the wild" on my Instagram feed.