This small painting has a distinct Japanese feel. It expresses my love and fascination with the season of Fall. This is a time of change and paradox, of intense emotion... a time when we feel the depth and poignancy of Life. This woman floats thru the darkness and rain, thru her fear of the unknown. Her path is illuminated by the inner flame of longing and the outer glow of Spirit/Moon. In Autumn, the leaves gift us with one last glorious show of their beauty, before they fall to the earth once more.