A few days ago we had a change of temperature, resulting in a nice fog. The view is from an upstairs window looking down our driveway. It was interesting to have to dull down the colors, reducing the contrast of values, so the palette is quite different. After I finished the painting I scumbled lighter paint over darker to increase the mistiness of the background.
Peak color was just a few days ago and now after a couple of hard rains we’re losing the leaves rapidly. One year we had snow while the leaves were still on the trees, making branches so heavy many of them fell on power lines. The blackouts were widespread and lasted for quite a while. Loss of power is common here. Most people have generators but we have a battery that runs essential equipment. Before we got a more powerful battery a couple of years ago we couldn’t run the pump which meant no water from the faucets and no water for flushing toilets. We kept a trash can full of water in the basement but often ran out before the electricity came back on. (Once we had two couples visiting from Texas and the power went out for nearly 24 hours–a much more intimate experience than any of us wanted!) Now we can run the pump as well as the refrigerator and only once has the battery not had enough juice to keep us going during the whole outage.
Foggy Morning 14 x 16 oil on birch panel unframed $375
