#2772 "Singleton Twin-stemmed Sugar Maple"

#2772 "Singleton Twin-stemmed Sugar Maple"
12x10 oils on canvas

The sun was a bit higher after I finished #2771 "Mossy Pioneer Stump" but the biting bugs were still tolerable. 

I continued to enjoy the morning and remained painting within the Singleton Forest. A large, twin-stemmed sugar maple caught my eye. I was thinking of the Rex block in the atmosphere and the dry conditions in the Boreal forest as I painted. The Singleton Forest and never been logged and the ecosystem is quite unique and irreplaceable. I take extreme caution in the forest so that it stays that way. 

Extensive smoke from the Boreal forest fires in Alberta was apparent on the water vapour imagery. Forest fires were breaking out across all of Canada within the boreal forest. Fires would break out even in in Nova Scotia resulting in many homes burnt to the ground and mass evacuations. 

As of June 7th, 2023 there were 423 active fires across Canada — 246 of them out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. The worst-affected province was Quebec, where 154 of the fires have been recorded so far. There were also 70 active fires in Alberta, which is also at the highest level of preparedness, and 68 in British Columbia. Twenty of the 45 new wildland fires recorded on Tuesday June 6th were in Ontario, according to the center's statistics. Climate change plays a big role, by causing more intense high-pressure zones, which bring prolonged periods of sunny, hot conditions and exacerbate drought conditions. 

'Unprecedented' Canadian fires intensified by record heat, climate change'

The Air Quality Index was hazardous due wit smoke from the Quebec wildfires so I remained in the Singleton Studio... sad...

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Warmest regards and keep your paddle in the water,

Phil Chadwick