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| 10/2/14 Platinum Carbon ink, watercolor, colored pencils, Zig marker, Canson XL 140 lb. paper |
After I had posted on Facebook a recent sketch of a maple that had been chopped up for power lines, my friend Laura told me about a stand of nearby birch trees that had
been freshly and badly whacked. This afternoon I drove over to the Crown Hill
neighborhood to see them for myself.
Indeed, they were as bad as she had said. Sight-sizing the
five birches with a pen, I could see that they were easily as wide as they are
tall – except in the middle, where a large wedge had been cut out of them to
accommodate the mass of power lines running through them.
Growing in line with them on the same parking strip were a
few tiny young trees. “Run, little trees,” I felt like shouting, “run while you
can!”
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| MiataGrrl's portable taboret. |
Technical note: Every now and then the day is warm enough
and I can park in just the right place that I can use the back of my car as a taboret.
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