Crested Butte Summer fine art Winter scene featuring eight species

Winter scene featuring eight species of birds that live year-round in the boreal forest of interior Alaska where daylight lasts just a few hours each day and winter temperatures often drop below -40° F

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Crested Butte Summer fine art Winter scene featuring eight speciesI have explored wild areas from almost one pole of Earth to the other. The midsummer wildflower meadows in the sub alpine of mountains around Crested Butte stand out as among the most beautiful flowering landscape I have ever encountered. This painting was evoked by several visits and hikes in the Crested Butte area. It is not a painting of a specific scene, but an amalgamation of what I see in my mind when I think of my mid summer visits to that