A close-up for you today. When I first saw this pumpkin at King Orchards, I fell in love with those squiggles. I knew it’d be a hoot to paint!
It was most likely our last beautiful, warm day here for the next 6 months, so I didn’t spend much of it inside the studio. Picked green beans, mustard greens and bull’s blood beets. Prepared 2 more birch panels for upcoming paintings. Sat in a stupor out in the yard, marveling at the blue sky and yellow maple leaves. Two bald eagles flew overhead. No more turkey vultures; they skipped out last week. I just needed to be outside, soaking it all in.
And here’s how it looks from the bobcat’s vantage:
