Managing "the shift" in the forest.

Last years drought killed this red elm
which is valuable for its rot resistance so
i'm going to get a portable bandsaw mill in for a day.
Amazed that my 1939 tractor could pull a 2' x 18 ' log,
I started to look at what else I might else be able to 
drag to the lane to make a day of it. 
We will be milling at 3 to 4 logs per hour. 

The boat's deck seam resolution will involve laminated red elm bulwarks.
There was a cherry tree crowding the power line and a maple on the inside of a corner in the lane that would be difficult to get the boat past.
There's also the looming threat from the emerald ash borer.
A few yeas ago I took down some massive butternut trees before their
bugs finished them off.
To round out the inventory will be some prime sugar maples between 2' and
3' in diameter.

night vision

in daylight   48 x 66 in. oil colour

painting in no time

a three act play in no time

48 x 66 in. oil

inspiration

Stepping out the door

i was met with the fragrance of

wild raspberries.

After yesterday's deluge

i was afraid they all

would have been washed away-

into the cottontail thickets

There's also something

in the smell of corn in husks

cooked over a wood fire

that marks this time of year.

With one small green frog

and a large brown

dragonfly for company
i ate summer rain
sweetened with
maple sunshine
and apologized for
humanity

thirty-five year new northern

 48 x 96 in. oil






half the wood shed is full
i seldom leave it until
raspberry season

it is strange connecting
the illusion of space
across such a void

as of  aug. 18-13
as in the potential
to come in and out of existence
in any number of combinations
depending on a bounce and
then shifting between
the in betweens
might it not just be pulsing between
the dimensions that we see
and the dark one
with about 20%
in the transition
grey ?
















aug 22...as the sun set,  anticipating the moon through tree tops

cumulonimbus

dead reckoning
self portrait
gravity
fluid dynamics
marching clouds
beginning to spin