The meaning of "A La Sainte Terre":

"Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter’? It's a beautiful word. Way back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.”

-John Muir

Heidi's note: The colors of sandstone and soil in the painting bring me to this idea of sauntering... wandering peacefully. Not as one who is lost, but one who is on a pilgrimage to peace. Soli Deo gloria.

The two paintings can go together as a diptych or hung separately.