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Looking in the cottage windows on a frosty winter night just before Christmas. Bright red candles are alight, sending a warm glow out over the snow. The Christmas tree and mantle are decorated with crimson and gold balls. A calico cats looks out the window at a chickadee sitting outside on the sill, and a pair of foxes peep around the corner of the little house.

Cwm Christmas

Christmas in the cottage in the cwm, featuring my mom's cat, Pearlie. This is my digital artwork, not a photograph except for the cat.

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A secluded dell on a autumn afternoon, perfect for a quiet walk through the woods. The warm setting sun lights the fallen leaves and a small pool. A bluebird couple looks for food amid the leaves and pine cones.

The Afternoon of the Year

This is the kind of place I like to walk in the fall and winter, with little secluded hollows and pools covered with fallen leaves and the warm autumn afternoon sun.

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Looking up through the branches of a towering tree in autumn. The falling leaves of burgundy, red, gold, orange, yellow, and blue sparkle against the deep blue sky.

Falling Rainbow

I have a maple tree in my yard that sometimes turns these colors in the fall - red on the outer leaves, then yellow, and the inner leaves still green. Other years, though, it just turns yellow. Then it's more like the tree in my Autumn Guardian.

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Hidden in a tiny clearing by the roots of a old tree in a dark wood sits a miniature cottage. Welcoming light shines through the windows onto the deck and potted plants and tiny well that make this place look comfortable and homelike in spite of its size. A leaf-strewn path cuts through the grass and ferns and clover that tower over the little home. A few rays of sunlight shine down through the forest canopy and illuminate the scene.

Little House in the Big Woods

I had the idea and made a picture like this back in 2011 when I was fairly new to Vue software and 3D landscapes in general. Since I've gotten more experience I've been thinking for some time of redoing it. I love miniatures! Here's the earlier version.

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Looking out of a cave under a waterfall onto an idyllic scene in a small river valley. Through a gap in the falling water a cottage is visible just beyond the curve of the river. The water streaming past the opening breaks the sunlight into many colors and sparkles.

Window on the Cwm

This is the reverse of my Cwm Waterfall image, this time from behind the waterfall (and it's late summer rather than spring). This perspective was inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's description from the chapter "The Window on the West" in The Lord of the Rings.

“They stood on a wet floor of polished stone, the doorstep, as it were, of a rough-hewn gate of rock opening dark behind them. But in front a thin veil of water was hung, so near that Frodo could have put an outstretched arm into it. It faced westward. The level shafts of the setting sun behind beat upon it, and the red light was broken into many flickering beams of ever-changing colour. It was as if they stood at the window of some elven-tower, curtained with threaded jewels of silver and gold, and ruby, sapphire and amethyst, all kindled with an unconsuming fire.”

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