Up Dennison

Mt. Dennison, acrylic on canvas, 42x60 inches, 1996.

From the collection of John Everitt.

The mountain from the Holvey Ranch, overlooking Portman's Pond.

The Duncan-McDonald Cemetery is on top of the little yellow hill at the right.

Patti was singing on the porch, Bonnie still chased tennis balls, there was a fair but gopher scoured garden of vegetables, and all that Val Verde white oak, brought down by the cousins and last years last storm to burn in the new stove from Vermont while we ate winter lettuce in that big yellow kitchen.

O Miss Virginia, won't you drive momma home,

She's got children to feed and bacon to thaw.

There's whiskey in the cupboard and a dollar in the drawer,

Just get past the old Richgrove road.

The painting was made for The Springville Inn, but bought by Mitch Burrell in Portland, who later sold it to John Everitt in Hood River.