This painting was inspired by a fleeting moment of brilliant, winter glory as the fog cleared from over a tree-lined field. The photo was taken on a frosty morning near Brookings, South Dakota. The photographer and I share the same love of these uniquely South Dakota winter scenes - the dark season's gift of heavenly hoarfrost.*
South Dakota poet, Jennifer Soule, was inspired to write this poem when she contemplated Snowfire at my Dazzling Dakota solo show, Winter 2025:
This painting was inspired by a fleeting moment of brilliant, winter glory as the fog cleared from over a tree-lined field. The photo was taken on a frosty morning near Brookings, South Dakota. The photographer and I share the same love of these uniquely South Dakota winter scenes - the dark season's gift of heavenly hoarfrost.*
South Dakota poet, Jennifer Soule, was inspired to write this poem when she contemplated Snowfire at my Dazzling Dakota solo show, Winter 2025:
Snow fire
sun reflects off snowy trees
evergreens pop green forever
--ice and fire commune
to merge seasons and elements
in a splash of bright glow
Jennifer Soule
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*Reference photo credit: Sara Jaragoske of Brookings, SD.