One of my favorite streams in the “High Country” is the Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne River.  It has inspired at least two dozen of my paintings.  My practice is usually to hike up a couple of miles, where the boulders are as big as houses. In “Down the Lyell Fork", however, I didn't even go beyond the campground.  I strolled out onto the popular flat sunbathing rocks and looked back.  I could see down to the confluence with the Dana Fork creating the genesis of the famed Tuolumne River. The contrast of the turbulence in the channel with the quiet reflections over the flat rocks caught my eye. It was fun balancing these ephemeral qualities into one unified whole.