#2282 "Barriefield Green Bay Shore"

I stayed overnight in Barriefield. That meant that I was only minutes away from painting after a quick breakfast and coffee. A warm front had crossed the area overnight delivering just enough rain to wet the ground. I was painting by 7:15 am.

This was Day Two of the Paint the Town Kingston event of the Annual International Plein Air Painters (IPAP) Paint Out affiliated with the Kingston School of Art 2019. This view is from the very end of Knapp Street. Knapp is more of a dead end lane that takes a ninety degree right hand turn off James Street. I looked back eastward across Green Bay toward the Barriefield Shore and the boat house and homes. My painting spot the previous day was behind the large metal-clad boathouse on the right. You can also just make out the dilapidated boat house on the edge of this painting - just a few strokes of paint.

Gravity waves were evident at the top of the planetary boundary level. This is the layer of the atmosphere that exchanges heat, moisture and momentum with the earth. The stable level at the top of this mixing layer is most pronounced after a long night of radiational cooling at the ground. Gravity wave clouds mark this level in exactly the same way that waves identify the surface of a lake. The wind pattern was now under the influence of the cyclonic flow around Hurricane Dorian.

A female ruby throated hummingbird hovered just inches in front face for a few seconds while I painted and then darted to the assortment of flowers that grew along the shoreline beside and behind me. The humming sound of the car tires on the metal grates of the La Salle Causeway was a constant background noise. I much preferred the whirr of the wings of the hummingbird.

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