12. Mile 140 (unfinished)
· Looking upstream 200° SSW from Butterfly Camp · 13 June 2002 · a hot cactus covered campsite with many flint chippings · a clear starry tent-free night · 14 June · a bright hot morning paddling through cattle country and ranchettes · a kildeer tries to distract us from its nest by dragging a wing and lying helplessly in the grass · seven cedar waxwings hunt insects in the cottonwood trees ·
Butterflies II: northern blue · northwest ringlet · phoebus parnassian · queen alexandra’s sulphur · ruddy copper · swallowtail · western tiger ·
10" x 14" / 2½" x 7"
Pencil and watercolour on paper / crayfish / claw ornament / map
Copyright © 2002 Tony Foster