· Day 3 - From Billy Island looking NNW ·
11" x 13¾   2" x 4"   Copyright © 2002 Tony Foster

Day 3 · Big Water to Stephen Foster State Park · 9 miles through prairie, swamp, cypress forest · lakes · the first land for 30 miles at Billys Island · as I sit painting a slim grey / red fox runs daintily around me its nose to the ground · intent upon its own business · it pauses, runs forward, stops, jinks sideways, resumes its course · ignoring me completely · all its senses are finely tuned, each hair bristling and alert, yet it doesn't notice me ·