From the artist, "This studio painting represents the view of the aviator, the eagle, the minds that soar and are familiar with the sky, the space, the freedom, the perspective, the exhilarations, the fears, the problems, the dangers, the environment which must be known, measured and respected, if the eagle's world is to be fully respected, if it is to provide fulfillment, joy, the edge with a view. Specifically, this oil painting followed the small watercolor, "Where Eagles Fly" which was done one summer at a friend's lake studio in northern North Carolina. We had flown to Danville, Virginia (the closest airport) in our 1973 Maule M-4 220C, a small, high performance tail dragger during a period of unstable wither that included low visibilities, rain, sunshine, multiple cloud layers and two fronts that could not decide which way they were headed, and consequently kept us company for the entire eight day painting trip. Additionally, on landing at Danville, I joined the select  club of tail wheel pilots who have had an airplane take them off the runway prior to the desired exit point. There's an old saying among those who have flown extensively in tail draggers, There's them that has, and them that's gonna. It took almost 11,000 hours, a gusty 8-15 mph 90 degree crosswind, a faulty 3200 Scott Tail wheel to joy the club. (The only injury was to the pilot's ego.) In any event, the little watercolor worked so big that a determination was made in North Carolina to do a big oil of the same idea back in the studio. The image and view of the painting was prophetic because we'd been promised conditions at home as good. However, the building cumulonimbus clouds, low stratus, and few holes were typical for the return trip. Somehow, God made honest matching image."