Sudden Spring

Here along Druid Hill Creek the surest way to know that spring has indeed arrived is when the honeysuckle undergrowth bursts into leaf. First the bushes take on a faint green glow, then a kind of shadowy green along sprays of branches that cascade over the river bank. But in only a day or two the honeysuckle simply erupts into clouds and billows of green below the still-bare cottonwoods and willows. 

"Honeysuckle on Druid Hill Creek," wc/ink on paper, 8x10

Distant trees do show warmer colors and casts of yellow, where buds are barely open. In another week or two the foliage will be considerably more dense.