Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Giclée on Paper Print Size:13.5" x 16" the whole scene lit with

the whole scene lit with the filtered turquoise light of tropical shallows

every strand of fur rendered with the patience of someone who has spent days quiet in the woods

the orange feet visible through the transparent shallows

A Canadian Shield island in a northern lake — a single white pine bent by decades of prevailing wind

Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Giclée on Paper Print Size:13.5" x 16" the whole scene lit withA Red Squirrel faces off against a Pileated Woodpecker on the trunk of a dead pine the woodpecker emerging from its excavation, the squirrel on a branch just across, both alert and assessing. This is a territorial encounter in progress: the Pileated, excavating for carpenter ants, and the Red Squirrel, investigating the noise, have come face to face. The composition is spare and tense, the background dissolved to a soft blue. Glen observed and