“Lined with Cedars”
8x10" oil on panel

This is one of my favorite scenes in Bethania. I like the walk referred to as “Pathway to God’s Acre” so much, in fact, that I did three paintings of it on my recent trip to this small historical Moravian community. Some of the Red Cedars one sees here date back hundreds of years, as far back as 1760, the year of the oldest grave in God’s Acre. When there is a funeral at nearby Bethania Moravian Church, the casket is carried by pallbearers up this path to its grave site. I can only imagine the solemn beauty of such a procession.

See the same scene in watercolor in a portrait [vertical] orientation on a recent On the Plein Air Trail blog post, and see a landscape-oriented oil version of it in my Behr Path newsletter that will come out on Monday. Non-subscribers can click here to become subscribers to the newsletter.