Marching is an evening scene from a campsite outside Asheville, North Carolina. When I took the photo, I was struck by the direction of light and the coolness of the snowy shadows. There's a crispness to sunlight when it falls across snow that always makes me want to paint. The underpainting is a glowy orange, which keeps the foreground and left side of the scene warm despite the coolness in the blue shadows. The trail meanders into deeper stillness before rounding the trees into parts unknown.