October
16" x 24" oil on aluminum

There is so much color in October! My birthday month, my favorite month of the year. So many things achieve their greatest beauty just before the winter takes them. I gather them all up, but cannot save them for long. Tonight will be cold, our first frost.
I'm shivering .

 

Deep Creek at Juddhaven
22" x 28" extended plein air oil on aluminum

 

I've been painting out at Deep Creek these past few days. It's like working in a Cathedral. I watched a salmon struggle past. It took him a couple of hours to work his way past me. He was a thing of wonder, a bit of God. A blue heron rounded the curve of the creek, and turned away in mid-air at the sight of me. I didn't blame him. A little garter snake wound his way through the water, worthy of an Andrew Goldsworthy portrait.
Every day I feel the rain getting closer, and I'm howling!
not yet!
not yet!
just one more day, I'm begging here.