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Plein Air Magazine gave the artist a challenge to paint their backyards.  Well, challenge excepted.

My backyard backs up to a beautiful cove off the lake we live on.  The home association keeps the shoreline natural and uncluttered. There are a few docks and two marinas but the rest is kept uncluttered.  Thus, the shoreline is abundant with vegetation, trees and boulders.  I paint often in my Cove.  I love honing in on the intimate scenes I find there.  I feel very blessed to live here in such beauty right in the heart of a city.   
we have an abundance of wildlife, such as foxes, geese, ducks, herons, bald eagles, hawks and even a coyote or two.  We also see deer occasionally.  We leave our area down by the water in a natural state and plant for the wildlife. Our boulders attract denning animals of several species.  We have been able to enjoy watching a fox family, a ground hog family and this year a raccoon family.  

I have decided to do a whole series based on the beauty of my backyard inspired by Plein Air Magazine and our current quarantine situation.  Hopefully it will inspire you to take a closer look in your own backyards.

Happy discovering,

Jennylynne Gragg