This has been a fun morning creating this painting – all the books I read on PhotoShop tell you to read them BUT they also say the only way to really learn is get out there and practice hard – Like in business, if you work hard you will increase your chances for good luck! – In this world of art I need all the luck I can get.

It is a beautiful day on Drummond Island – but after today, the forecast says summer is over. High forecast, until I leave next week, is to never get beyond 65 degrees – mostly in the 50’s.

Yesterday, I saw flocks of geese flying south, Sandhill Cranes circling and calling out to those cranes still siting on the ground – that is how they gather in large flocks to head south, saw a Tundra  swan swimming in the Bay, the yard is full of small flight birds stopping to pick up seeds and bugs, cedar seed pods starting to fall, the water is a fall blue in color.

There seems to be more freighter traffic (I can see them a mile or so out when they reach the northern tip of Lake Huron heading into or out of the Soo Locks connecting Lake Superior & Lake Huron) – maybe delivering all that stuff before the storms of November (from Gordon Lightfoot’s Edmund Fitzgerald) or the Soo Locks close in January I think (I have a scanner on and enjoy listening to their Captions talk as they pass each other).

Of course there is leaf color – but not like New England. Another sign of fall –  my back hurts – from all I do to get ready for winter, like the birds, I will soon be heading south.

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