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I returned to the Agawa Campground to paint with my Huntsville artist friends. We all set our gear up on the beach although it was certainly not beach weather. Plein air artists are hearty souls and we had a blast.

After completing #2134 "Gitchi-gami Agawa Coast" I decided to paint looking southward to the headlands of Pancake Bay Provincial Park. Batchawana Bay was just around that corner to the south. I set up in the protection of a small grove of trees a bit to the south. Streets of turbulent stratocumulus covered the sky. The sun peaked through between the cloud streets every now and again and the solar radiation felt wonderful. The waves were crashing on Agawa Beach. We were all alone and the early June campground was virtually empty except for us artists.

The 1878 Ojibwe language dictionary by Father Frederic Baraga says Lake Superior is Otchipwe-kitchi-gami - the sea of the Ojibwe people. The "i" at the end of gami would be more like the "i" in it than a long...

I paint outside - nothing between my eyes and the inspiration. That special connectivity gets into the pigments and you quickly realize that we are all stewards of the land, privileged to appreciate its beauty during our lifetime but responsible for leaving the environment better off for the future and all inhabitants... Phil was born and raised along the St. Lawrence of Ontario, Canada and studied at Queens University as a nuclear physicist. A meteorologist for Environment Canada for 35 years, Phil specializes in severe weather and training. Remote sensing is his forte - you might want to see a tornado before you die... but not just before you die! He has farmed, raised bees, written books and articles, lectured and instructed...