Denial at Costco

8/27/13 Platinum Carbon ink, watercolor, Stillman & Birn Alpha sketchbook

Something in the Costco parking lot stopped me short: A small maple tree that was almost entirely red!

 

Maybe those small parking lot trees turn red prematurely! Maybe it – and several other trees in the same lot – is just a fluke! Maybe it’s all this dry weather we’ve been having!

 

It’s not even September! (See my Aug. 5 post to read more about the season that comes between summer and fall – Denial.)