Mary's Lake Monarch

          Here is the water color done from the sketches which I brought home on the 8th of October 2014.   Why is a lonely tree sticking up in the sky so captivating?  Maybe it comes from spending too much time up in trees when I was a kid.      
          This painting is of only the top half of this trunk. The knotty dark branch at the bottom is still after this long, covered with bark. From the wood I found laying around the other day, this seems to not be a hardwood. I really cannot tell...
          Have not seen any woodpeckers around this tree since winter.
Don't remember if I have any photos taken at this location. If so, I sure hope they are better color than this jpeg of the painting.  Actually, I just figured out how to "gimp" the jpeg to get rid of the pink color that was in the original photo. Though the colors still are no where near as lively as the painting they are improved.