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Yosemite dogwoods announce the beginning of spring. Here, we are enjoying them with Tenaya Creek in the background.

In this painting, I am taking in the white azalea underneath the redwood trees in Mariposa Grove catch the dappled light.

In this piece, I am enjoying a starry night sky illuminating Cathedral Peak in the Yosemite high country.

In this piece we are taken to a bend in the Merced River just after snowfall.

The late afternoon sun rakes across the meadow and glows in front of Cathedral Rocks and Spires.

I find painting redwoods to be really challenging. For this diptych I leaned into the height and focused on a few trees in a cluster.

This diptych was painted on site in Yosemite as part of a project to create 50 small Yosemite paintings. The Rostrum is well known by climbers for dramatic 800′ rise. This piece consists of two panels (lower) and (upper).

I wasn’t sure I was going to make it to Yosemite on this painting trip. There were torrents of rain driving up to Mariposa and a big road closure between there and the El Portal entrance to the park. My painting buddie and I decided that we would watch the weather and if it was favorable we’d get an early start for the Yosemite entrance on the Fish Camp side. It added an hour to the trip since we were in Mariposa but we were rewarded with a magically sunny spring day that I will remember always.

The thing I most wanted to paint on this trip was branches of blooming dogwood in Yosemite and I got my wish. I found these dogwoods blooming next to Tenaya Creek on the lower creekside trail on the way to Mirror Lake. My painting spot was uncomfortably rocky and still I was in heaven.