Beyond the Next Bend landscape painting

Beyond the Next Bend, 2015, oil on panel, 20 x 16 in.
Beyond the Next Bend, 2015, oil on panel, 20 x 16 in.

I stayed in Gimmelwald, a small village in the Swiss Alps, last summer with my husband.  We would get up early in the morning to hike up farther into the mountains on a trail that went straight up from our village.  At the top of a steeply inclined field, there was a bench that overlooked the village and valley below.  This became our daily breakfast spot before continuing on our hikes.