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I didn't need to stay there forever

This was the case during a beautiful June evening in eastern Tennessee when I came across this vista

Queue Winter and I was drawn toWhen I began my college education, I studied music. Ear training chewed me up and spat me out, so I switched to art, much to my parents' consternation, who worried about what their daughter would do to earn a living. I've done just fine in life with my art training, and I still draw analogies between my current profession of painting and my former life as a musician. One of these concepts is the notion of "color chords," the harmony of a few colors