Beauty Beyond Borders

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society requested that I do a painting demonstration as part of their Speaker Series. I chose to do a sunset lake scene. We rehearsed with the moderator a couple weeks before the event. All went well. Half an hour before showtime, we set up and discovered our main camera would not function. My dear hubby agreed to be the camera arm for the webcam for 45 minutes. Not easy, but somewhat doable. I demonstrated the best I could for the 700 people attending. However, my demonstration was not the most important part of the event. We asked the participants if they would share one beautiful place in nature and type their experiences in the webinar chat box. The answers they gave were so astoundingly beautiful, far surpassing any painting demonstration that I could do. Stunning beauty from around the world wove a beautiful tapestry that blanketed everyone’s imaginations with peace and awestruck wonder. Everyone’s sharing went far beyond to a place where no camera was necessary.
Fall migration, changing leaves
Flower Pot island near Tobermory, Ont
Listening to the birds while walking thru the woods
Waterfalls in Yosemite
Salt sea marsh birds
Leaves in sunlight
Seeing cardinals in the snowy trees
Mtns and beaches of Mexico
watching the lake at star lake
Morning mist along Oregon coastline
Sunlight thru the canopy of coastal redwoods n. Ca
Eagles in Vancouver Island
Watching the bees in cosmos flowers
Bison, elk and crows Yellowstone nat’l park
S Carolina wild dunes
Hummingbirds in backyard garden
Watching the surf crashing 2000 ft below where the ocean meets the fluted cliffs on island of Kauai, Hawaii
Ocean waves on Fire Island New York
Columbia Gorge Oregan
Water lilies in ponds
Sky in Scotland
White shell in mb