Years ago, when my wife and I were dating, we used to go to the Nature Center at Stoney Creek. There was a place on the long trail, the Habitat Trail, that we both especially enjoyed. We called that place the "Big Woods". It was a woods that had such a thick canopy that little light made it to the ground. Consequently there was little undergrowth which made the trees look like columns in a gigantic cathedral. At the beginning of the trail leading through the woods were several large rocks. It was on these rocks we would sit, stare at the trees and talk. That was the inspiration for this painting, however, like a lot of my paintings it tended to go in a direction other than originally planned.