Swamps, rivers, lakes, waterfalls. There are lots of water views around Sheffield, Mass. Umpachene Falls, in nearby New Marlborough, flows over stair-stepped rock surrounded by birch and hemlock. The long, tall falls is Race Brook Falls, about a mile from my house. The Housatonic River runs from the northern Berkshires to Long Island Sound, and the Great Falls, in nearby Falls River, Conn., are indeed great.

The peonies and iris are from my gardens. I paint them from photos, mostly, usually in March or April, when I find myself desperate for color.

My husband restored a 1950 Chevy pickup truck a few years ago. He was needing some parts and a consultation with one of the Northeast's leading Advanced Design experts, who happens to be in Stephentown, NY, about 40 miles from our house in Massachusetts. I went along for the ride and while the two of them were deep in the minutiae of brakes and radiators, I found myself entranced with the "Field of Dreams" out back—several acres of rusting old Chevy trucks. From photos taken on that and another visit, I happily painted rusting metal and the distinctive high hood for many months.