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| 10/2/24 Green Lake Village courtyard and Green Lake |
After seeing some of my sketches of Green Lake, Roy
said he hadn’t been there in decades. I decided it was high time for him to
make a sketch-visit at one of my favorite sketching (and walking) locations. We
met up first for lunch at the Green Lake Village PCC, then walked to the lake.
My favorite sketches were of the various types of birds hanging out at the shoreline,
as common as they are.
Further walking revealed some color just beginning on a variety of trees. The one at right was so sporadically colored within dark green foliage that I thought maybe the red was coming from berries. Examined up close, however, I realized it was a maple, after all, with an unusual spotty pattern.
We may have stopped at Ben & Jerry’s for ice cream after our walk, but neither of us sketched, so there’s no evidence of that. (Ha!) A chilly morning turned into a beautifully sunny afternoon – my favorite kind of fall day.
There's a maple down the street from me that started turning in early September, a section on each side of the trunk, perhaps specific branches while the majority of the leaves were very green. And nothing more since, even as other maples have gone full blown. It's been a very strange fall for leaf color here in northern Idaho.
ReplyDeleteUnpredictable color here, too. I guess the trees are just reacting to all the weird weather extremes! I suppose we'll have to expect that as the "new normal."
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