This was a warm and quiet day along the reservoir at Brighton Dam. The azaleas are of course long over, so we moved to the other side of the road and painted along the river. There were lots of families at the picnic tables and plenty of fishermen; very pleasant for the middle of July. However, I am beginning to get a bit overwhelmed with the greens! Maryland in July is green green green and more green, and the trees are so full that they can easily close off any possibility of a distant view. I was not unhappy with my work, but I allowed myself to create a Big Green Wall that will need to be opened up a good bit to allow the painting to breathe. I’ll be working on it later. Apart from that, I was stunned and disappointed to see that a lovely little grove of young trees that had been situated along the left-hand side of the pathway leading from the parking lot down to the river and picnic area had been cut down at some time in the past year – I have no idea why. Only the stumps are left. I really liked this little stand of trees: it reminded me of some of Wolf Kahn’s paintings – lots of narrow verticals with bands of lovely colors behind and among those shapes, holding it all together. Sigh.