This May 2007 oil painting features one of my favorite salt marshes in Maine. It's in Kennebunkport, across from the Bush compound on the ocean. I first painted at this location when I was doing my "turn your back" series. In that series of paintings, I turned my back on whatever the tourists usually look at, and usually found even greater beauty in the other direction. It's sort of a "road not chosen" approach to choosing art subjects, and it's probably symbolic of my choices in life, too. This vibrant, impressionistic painting doesn't photograph with its full depth.