Blazing

This fall the weather has been wet--more than six inches of rain through October--but not so very cool. In fact we've yet to have even a light frost along Druid Hill Creek. The trees are changing more slowly, mostly rust and red with tipping yellow-greens here and there. As you'd expect, leaves have been fluttering in the crisp northern breeze. 

Outside my studio, the small trees along the creek bank have suddenly blazed into a mass of golden yellow. I stood at the window and sketched them in pencil and watercolor, not spending any time on detail. Using a set of Derwent "Intense" colors gave an idea of the saturated yellow and yellow-orange leaves against a bright clear sky.