Adirondack Life Magazine Illustration

This illustration accompanied a personal essay about a woman's lifelong connection to the Adirondacks and a chance encounter in a Schroon Lake post office that became part of her personal mythology for years afterward.

To capture the story's themes of memory, nostalgia, and place, I created four vignette illustrations framed with postage stamp edges. The imagery includes a portrait of the boy at the center of the story, the post office where they first saw one another, the family cottage on Lake George, and a dock overlooking the water and surrounding mountains.

The postage stamp treatment references both the post office setting and the way memories are preserved as snapshots in time. Together, the four illustrations create a visual narrative that echoes the essay's blend of romance, longing, and the enduring pull of the Adirondack landscape.