November

November is the month of beautiful browns. The forest is filled with layers of leaves offering an opportunity to give nuanced names to the color “ brown”. It is fun to mix, as as well as name, the colors. I see reddish-orangey browns, soft peachy- browns, rust-tinged orangey- browns and somber purplish-browns. Today is the last day of November and soon the browns will be covered with snow.

Here is my favorite Wendell Berry poem:

“When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.

When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf.”

Here are three tiny, 4” x 4” gouache paintings  of orangey-brown leaves.