Lovesick Lake IX-XII - Four Works in Progress

This morning the five baby swallows left the nest and are out flying with their parents. I do hope they all survive and hopefully will return next year.

Today Ron and I went out to Lovesick Lake to go canoeing.















Lovesick Lake IX

Ron wanted to try out the small trawling motor he had gotten for the new flat back canoe to see how long the batteries would last.

We paddled out from the boat launch area by Lock 28 Burleigh Falls and headed for the channel. Once in the channel Ron started the motor and we continued through the channel, watching for the submerged rocks and trees scattered throughout the middle channel.















Lovesick Lake X

At the halfway point we let the canoe drift while Ron fished and I did a number of sketches of the islands and trees.

After a while the wind came up and it started to cloud over and we decided to head back to the boat launch taking a different channel on the way back.












Lovesick Lake XI

On our way back, we went past Porter Island where there once had been a majestic pine tree which had been stuck by lightning since we were last there. The nice thing was that a pair of ospreys had built a nest and I managed to get a number of photographs of them.

It wasn't long before we made it back to the boat launch.

Ron was very pleased to see that after over an hour of use, the battery on his trawling motor was still more than half charged.

I will post each of these drawings at a later date as more work on them has been completed.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.


Lovesick Lake XII