This painting was created from an oil sketch done on the site, along with photos and memory. The place, Schoodic, overlooking Mount Desert Island, has such a feeling of timeless serenity. The mind travels through the cool air, across the sparkling water. All along the shore is evidence of violent upheavals. Huge stones lay shattered in chaotic jumbles, but the sea just goes on doing what it always does, washing the roack, wearing them down in rising and falling tides, while the wind blows away all sounds except a buoy somewhere out in the water/