25 - Pipestone Creek Marsh (original oil painting, 8 x 8 in.) especially at night

especially at night

and biting where I could not see them

when it sweetens the soft spring darkness to the tune of whining Mosquitoes

• Hand-stretched over solid wood stretcher bars

the direction in which the lighting will be maximally stable and the forested point will remain in shadow through most of the afternoon

25 - Pipestone Creek Marsh (original oil painting, 8 x 8 in.) especially at night16 October 2014 found me astonished at the broad swath of cattail marsh that is Pipestone Creek, hemmed in by its forested valley wall, southwest of Broadview, Saskatchewan. The high sharp line of the flat prairie outside of this valley world is visible on the horizon though a gap in the trees. We are a little over a kilometre upstream of where the Transcanada pipeline crosses the Pipestone. We are past the places where we have the pipeline route