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'Neath the Willows

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During the 1980’s, the streams and wetlands became cleaner due to government regulations put into effect a decade earlier. This enabled the Great Blue Herons return to the Northern Pennsylvania waterways. I was fascinated by the Great Blue’s prehistoric like grandeur, but as I would sneak along the water’s edge trying to photograph them or study them through binoculars, I would always manage to spook these ever alert birds into flight. I decided that this was the moment that I wanted to capture in my painting.