Mountain Poetry Artist_Megan Schaugaard The entrance to the Rome

The entrance to the Rome Temple with the inscription above "Santita all'eterno la casa del signore"

light and dark

and yet unlike any that has ever lived

it may have once been a ground-bound

I am always looking for the perfect shot

Mountain Poetry Artist_Megan Schaugaard The entrance to the RomeThe reference for this painting came while I was taking a group of BYUI painting class students to visit Jackson Wyoming. The snow was too deep to go over the normal Jackson Pass route so we used the longer way through Palisades and the South Fork of the Snake River canyon. We stopped at a roadside turn out to take photos of some mountain goats. They were so high up that they appeared as just white dots. It started as a demo in class; totally fogged