Monica Rozak fell in love twice, at the same time. “I met my husband here and he showed me all of his favorite back roads, and special beach hideouts and I fell in love with the Cape the same time I fell for him,” the Buffalo, New York native confesses. “His family has been in east Orleans for generations and the had a variety of pieces of property that we managed for them. As we were remodeling a small cottage where we could live, that’s when I started to notice the Cape light.”

That famous light she speaks of illuminates Rozak’s sweeping landscapes with vivid energy that intensifies the experience of a Cape Cod day, despite the time of day or the season. Her delineation of sky and land serves as a bullseye for the view as they feel as though they are standing under her sweeping ceiling of clouds, sun and atmosphere. “I definitely have a love for looking out at a big sky,” she says. “I walk a lot for inspiration and on every walk the sky just holds my attention. And it is different every day and every hour, it is constantly changing, something I don’t think you can say about the sky anywhere else.”