september smoke

spending a couple of weeks in the Sierras - fires burning in Sequoia and Yosemite, thunderstorms, lots of chainsaw noise followed by enormous thumps of falling logs as crews clear dead trees from the last many years of drought.
it's unnerving, but managing the forest is important for the health of the forest.



There's been time to catch up on The River's Journey project as well - I'll post more on the Rose-compass.com site.
Can't resist the small buildings:

'women'
santa rosa park
gouache
4"x6"

bees and flowers, lompoc, gouache, 4"x4"

SYR, from santa rosa road
gouache 
3"x5"

farm horse, gouache, 2"x4"