{"id":1371,"date":"2011-10-03T08:21:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2024-02-22T08:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:00:59","slug":"tern-lake-kenai-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/tern-lake-kenai-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Tern Lake &#8211; Kenai Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tern-Lake-Kenai2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tern-Lake-Kenai2-468x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1388\" title=\"Tern-Lake-Kenai2\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>While on Alaska&#8217;s Kenai Peninsula&nbsp;recently<\/strong> I did some preliminary stuff for a few paintings when I returned home to the studio. Here&#8217;s the second one, inspired when the late afternoon light was streaming through a mountain notch and lighting up this marshy lake. The&nbsp;golden atmosphere&nbsp;made the air really glow. These mountains were so high and steep I just couldn&#8217;t get their tops in the painting, but the blue atmosphere up there gives you a hint of what&#8217;s high above. We saw mountain goats in the upper meadows&nbsp;up there, tundra swans and green-winged teals on the lake. It was a&nbsp;soft environment just holding its breath for winter to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What always strikes me about&nbsp;Alaska&nbsp;every time&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#8217;m here is the pure enormity of it all. I live next to Olympic National Park, and it&#8217;s a big park &#8211; but if you took the time to walk across it, you&#8217;d&nbsp;eventually come&nbsp;out and&nbsp;find towns, streets and stores on the other side. It&#8217;s like an island of wilderness in the midst of civilization. But Alaska isn&#8217;t like that at all. If you walked into THAT wilderness, you simply wouldn&#8217;t ever come out the other side.&nbsp;Civilization is a small&nbsp;island within nature.&nbsp;One trail we were&nbsp;on there&nbsp;had a wildlife sightings list at the trail head. It said:eight bears, one moose and calf. So, as we started down the trail&nbsp;Nancy noted that we were 9th on the food chain. It made for a much more heightened and self-aware hike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">This ORIGINAL painting is varnished acrylic on linen canvas, 11&#8243; x 14&#8243; and $140 unframed. Now click on the framed image&nbsp;and it should enlarge. Notice this version doesn&#8217;t have the trees on the left. I added those today, so the painting below no longer exists exactly like this. Notice the difference? No, you don&#8217;t get it without the trees!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tern-Lake-Kenai-framed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tern-Lake-Kenai-framed-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1373\" title=\"Tern-Lake-Kenai-framed\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This mahogany frame with a custom linen liner makes it a total of $165&nbsp;(and we have other frames)&nbsp;and shipping adds just a bit more depending on your zone or if you take the frame. This is the original painting, NOT a print.<br><a href=\"mailto:larry@larryeifert.com\">Email <\/a>us for details. SOLD, SORRY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Thanks for reading this week.<br>Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\">Click <\/a>here to go to the online blog this was to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\">Click <\/a>here to go to our main website &#8211; packed with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nancycherryeifert.com\">Click<\/a> here to check out what Nancy&#8217;s currently working on with her photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-medium-font-size is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on Alaska&#8217;s Kenai Peninsula&nbsp;recently I did some preliminary stuff for a few paintings when I returned home to the studio. Here&#8217;s the second one, inspired when the late afternoon light was streaming through a mountain notch and lighting up this marshy lake. The&nbsp;golden atmosphere&nbsp;made the air really glow. These mountains were so high and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/tern-lake-kenai-peninsula\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tern Lake &#8211; Kenai Peninsula<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,34,44,58,68],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-alaska","tag-easel-paintings","tag-field-trips","tag-kenai-fjords","tag-mountains"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Tern-Lake-Kenai2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13441,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/13441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}