Autumn Colors Emerge

 

In this mid-August drawing you already see evidence of autumn color, especially on the yellow poplars. 22 years later the same scene has taller trees. I didn't know that ordinary forest trees kept on growing. As I look out the window here in the same place the trees are all manifesting yellow. Yellow poplars are invasive. In the absence of landscaping efforts there are weed tree poplar seedlings everywhere.

Colored pencil on sketchbook page with brown tech pen, 8" x 4", August 16, 1998.