It occurred to him that he was not seeing stone and engrave names but faces and events. He realized that when he himself was gone those gravestones would never have pictures in them again. Not the pictures he saw. It bothered him that someday people might not see the type of wealth Lee valued so highly because they wouldn't see the pictures in the stones. He wondered if there was a way to communicate this to others.
Reflections is about the pictures seen in stone.
Reflections is about love transcending death in a way that someday will be reality and not just memory. Lee felt that such a picture was possibly too powerful to be painted. Not because he couldn't accomplish it but because the subject was too dear to peoples hearts to be brought into the cold light of day. It took a few campfires before Lee decided to paint it. His friend Don Oakly asked him to include his own boyhood friend, Mickey Bands, in the painting.