"The mountain-top seems uplifted solitary to the gates of Heaven itself;  remote in air of such crystal purity that the whole being is 'tiptoe for flight'................"  (Memoirs of Louise Lawrence)

 Enjoy painting in the winter time, but just a small break from the painting of snow scenes….. Watercolor...Cache Valley, Utah..."Autumn High Country".  That dark gray color in the aspens is a color new to me that I found from Daniel Smith's colors called "graphite gray".  I did a wet-n-wet, just dropping the gray color in straight out of the tube and letting it run.  I think I'm going to try this again soon, but will mask off to get the white trunks of the aspen trees...