Decisions Oil on Linen Chewakla Park is a little state park just on the outskirts of Auburn. What it lacks in size, it makes up in a splendid diversity of land from sandy soil and pines, to large rock outcrops and waterfalls. It is a wonderful place to escape. On this day, I went out because I was sure there was a great painting waiting for me. I had in mind, one of the creeks that meander through the woods cascading over many small drops. This would be a perfect classic landscape. I walked for a while beside the creek and I could never quite get what I wanted. Each time I thought I had a site that looked good, I would wonder if it would be better a little further upstream. Finally, I got to a point where the trail turns and crosses the creek. At this point, unfortunately, the water was high and there was no bridge. I was very discouraged and put down my pack and thought about going home. I looked up and at the point where the trail turns was a sign with two arrows. Because it was in the middle of January, the red stood out against all the browns and grays. As I painted this sign, I thought of it more as a visual metaphor for the difficult decisions we all have to make in life where you reach a point and there are two ways to go, forward or backward. The sign stands in the midst of a tangled chaos of branches that made this metaphor even more relevant.
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