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by Bill Carmel, MFA The painting begins late morning with a hike up a path to a view so splendid, wondrous, and arresting that walking stops. I sit on a nearby fallen-oak log, zip up my vest to quiet the cool breeze, turn off the phone volume so that the device only snaps images, pat […]

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