Summertime in Australia

Well I'm not so sure we have had such a great summer here in Sydney, but I woke up this morning and the cicadas were chirping away in the gum trees in the park across the road from our apartment.  It reminded me of my summers as a boy, in the Australian bush, where the cicadas would carry on with their incessant chirps all summer long.

The other thing I noticed today was how the wind had blown all the gum leaves into a pile in the gutter.... I had never really looked at gum leaves before (just bloody leaves after all), but I had Evie with me and we started to pick some of the best leaves out of the pile.  The colors are beautiful... I hadn't really noticed.  Reds, yellows, browns, even blues and purples.

I took the camera out and we shot some reference photos of piles of leaves.  This is a watercolor I did today of gum leaves... not a really exciting topis, but I just couldn't resist.

Have a great day

Pete