#0176 "A Misty Morning at Paul's Tree"

Another memory from 1987

The fog was lifting during the early morning hours at our campsite on the "small" island on Bass Lake, Restoule in July 1987. Paul Bartlett, my canoe buddy really liked that particular tree. The location was the same rocky point employed in several other paintings: Number 0158 Bass Lake, Restoule and Number 0159 Paul's Tree among several others.

The pattern of ripples on the lake was a combination of wind waves and diffraction and reflection of those waves around the two points of land. Gravity and the shorelines weave quite a pattern on the surface of the lake.