HILL COUNTRY HOMECOMING

Sometimes the image and colors in a painting can have an immediate impact on us — we were blown away with Phillips' masterful use of every possible shade of blue in this scene from the Texas hill country. A solitary rancher in his old Ford pickup drives toward his home beneath the live oaks. In the sky flies a DC-3, heading away from a thunderstorm that is rumbling across the plains, the lightning adding white light to blue moon glow on a carpet of Texas Blue Bonnets.