The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island. I call my line of cards and art-focused souvenirs "I Was Here," but this is a place I can only say "I Was ALMOST Here." First, I had a trip booked to Kiawah just after Christmas one year. The night before the flight, I stepped on a sewing needle and landed in surgery.

The second trip was for business, but because my skills were so needed for a pre-Kiawah meeting in Philadelphia, I ended up missing the flight and just staying in Philly.

Looking up from one of the back rows of the Basilica of St. Mary's in Minneapolis, I watched the silhouette of David Cherwin as he directed the National Lutheran Choir in the loft. I caught sight of him from a unique angle over the rail of the choir loft, backlit by the rose window. This is one of a very few paintings I have done that features an individual, and also one of just a small grouping of church interiors.