Mt. Lemmon Daytripping
24 x 30 inches
Acrylic on Canvas

Three girls are day tripping on Mt. Lemmon. We get deeper and deeper into the ponderosa pines until we are lost – nothing but boulders, a creek that was not there before and a sense of fear that we will be cold and hungry and never found. Bear food. Solaya tells her story how she was lost in the Himalayas in flip flops in a storm and how the sound of drums guided her to a village.
We sit to rest and far away there is the sound of drums. We are skeptical, it does not sound like it is coming from the right direction.. We do follow the sound anyway and sure enough find the trailhead, no drummer in sight, however. What a magical day that was.

Back in the Keys I slip back into that moment and see the boulders, the lost feeling. I paint.