THE FIRST DAY OF HIS NEW LIFE. Sunrise from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on 140# watercolor block, 13 x 19. View is toward the nearby Southwest Mountains. Painted for a friend to mark the day he had an unplanned surgery at the Mayo Clinic that delivered him from 15 years of pain. The full story can be found at http://www.momentandhorizon.com/home/2010/9/17/the-first-day-of-his-new-life-sunrise-thursday-2-september-2.html