Late Sun 'cross the Yard

          Been meaning to get this place on paper for some time. The 'ol boy who lives here came swinging by just to see what I was up to. Forgot to give him my card, but he seemed easily convinced that I was legit. I was stopped beside the road sitting on the bike in the middle of the ditch with my bag a few yards away by the fence. The sun was cutting across the lower corner of the new barn roof. Some of the grass and half the sycamore was highlighted- the rest was in shadow, including the stuff sitting just over the rise to the barn. This ride was in mid October and I still saw the swallow-tailed flycatcher above the same brush along the south side of the road. The drawing is condensed left to right quite a bit compared to the actual yard. Otherwise you could not get it all on paper, and besides the condensed version seems to put more “punch” in the drawing.