Zion Day 5

Well the forecast could not have been more wrong today, go figure. It was said to have rain and snow, however in its place was a bright blue sunshine-filled day. The snow from yesterday melted very quickly making everything soggy.

Last night I was painting and I heard a familiar sickening, double thump out where my truck was parked, near a cottonwood tree. It was familiar because we have a lot of trees at home and when it rains the weaker limbs attempt suicide and jump, without any regard for the safety of what may lie underneath. At home that would be our many dwarf maple trees which have no way of avoiding a distraught oak branch that decides to leave.

   Out here the cottonwoods have similar emotional uncertainty and it is my unsuspecting Tundra innocently sleeping beneath, that sits in harms way.

   I am certain if my truck had been awake he would have accelerated to safety on its own, which Toyotas are programmed to do. Alas I did not hear him accelerate, so it was with a nervous stomach I grabbed a flashlight and coat to investigate.

 Luckily my vehicle was physically fine, albeit shaking a bit. Just ten feet away was a rotted limb of a cottonwood broken into a couple of large pieces. The longest was about six feet in length and about ten inches in diameter, enough to really do some damage had it had better aim.

 The water bottle is for scale.

I moved my truck away from the tree and he seems fine just shaken up, although this morning I did have to clean out his bed-liner.

As I said it was sunny today and I did get out and photo some this morning, most of the day I spent inside painting.

I had started one yesterday and I worked on it most of the afternoon. I also started two others, I’ll let them dry a bit and paint on them again tomorrow. 

 
This is a combo of Edgar Payne and I mixed in a bit of Mian Situ and myself thrown in for good measure.

 
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