#2823 "September Early Afternoon Sunflowers"

#2823 "September Early Afternoon Sunflowers"
7x5 inches oils on canvas panel

I kept rotating cyclonically after completing #2822 "September Midday Sunflowers". Meteorologically speaking and using my Coriolis hand, that rotation keeps me positive and my thumb pointing upwards. This is the view of the same cluster of sunflowers but looking toward the century-old shagbark hickory. 

A "scurry" of squirrels was busy harvesting nuts. A group of squirrels may also be called a "dray, " referring to a squirrel mother and her young. For those who do not care to be too grammatically precise, you might also call the twenty or so squirrels scurrying around the huge shagbark hickory a "herd".

There were a lot of creatures including birds, harvesting the thousands of hickory nuts. The squirrels would climb the tree out to the flimsiest limbs and chew off clusters of nuts. Shagbark hickory nuts typically develop in clusters of two and sometimes three nuts. The squirrels would then hurry to the ground to collect their harvest before other marauding rodents made off with them. 

Painting is work; I called it a day at the end of this fun little painting. I went for a long swim in Jim Day Rapids. Life is good when surrounded by nature and sunflowers.

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Warmest regards and keep your paddle in the water,

Phil Chadwick