Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Remains of summer - Elizabeth Smith


Remains of summer, originally uploaded by Elizabeth Smith.

Well, I guess I should say that these are remains of a southwest Florida summer. Our few deciduous trees don’t usually lose their leaves until sometime in November or December, and we don’t have the grand color change of more northern areas. Instead, our changes are subtle.

The Live Oak trees in our neighborhood are producing a healthy crop of acorns, and soon we’ll be seeing pockmarks in the dirt as the squirrels stock up for lean times. They’ve been tearing off the scales of the Slash Pine cones to get at the seeds, leaving a bristly inner core of a rich burnt sienna color.

More and more bird flocks are traveling in the skies, the goldenrod is blooming on the roadsides, and the wheel turns once more.

You can click on the image above to see it larger on my Flickr photostream.

~ Elizabeth Smith, Naples, FL, USA

3 comments:

  1. Love this collection - such clarity that it could be sitting here on a table in front of me instead of on the screen.

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  2. Lovely sketch Elizabeth - specially love the paper wasp nest - and your shadows give a perfect three-dimensional effect. Great.

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  3. Thank you Jeanette and Maree! I love these little tidbits of nature. The paper wasp nest was a challenge to paint, even that little bit of it!

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