Tuesday, August 2 2012
Double Eagle Forest Labyrinth Walk
Drove back to the resort to pick up my forgotten laptop charger and took the opportunity to walk along Reversed Creek. Good birding - juncos, mountain chickadees, juvenile nuthatches traversing tree trunks in busy vertical directions, and best of all, a new bird, an orange-crested warbler. He was busy working the willows along the brook, and finally came out to take a sip of water. He was a duller yellow, with more dusky yellow-green on the back, and an eye-stripe. Very elusive, but I did get him.
Back to the condo for lunch and a nap, dinner at Whiskey Creek, and a brief walk on the bridge at Twin Lakes. A windy, cloudy night, thunderstorm comings-and-goings making for dramatic skies and possibilities.
We’ve already been in the Sierras for 9 days already. Last night the moon was full and beautiful, rising clouds chasing its ascent into the gunpowder black sky. We stayed out on Gull Lake as the sun set, the water becoming still and darkened as indigo satin. Luminosity is the most intangible quality of color - how remote and unachievable is truly is on canvas. Better as a cinematographer or a light and space artist, like Robert Irwin or Dan Flavin. Why do I even try to paint? Because the canvas is beautiful in its own way, as is the process.
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