Different yet the same . . .

Same scene

Different medium

As I sit at my bench and look out the window, this is the scene I see 365 days a year.

The cool part is that it's always going to be slightly different day to day.

Here in the middle of August, the Big Bluestem is green next to the earth

but pale pink gold up above.

It's a hard color to reproduce and I'm always surprised

when I start playing with colors only to find that the colors that work are not

the colors my mind told me they were.

Here I pulled a pale salmon pink from my pastel pencils and overlaid it with grey.

Blend with a little off-white and it works well.

The greens give it just a little depth.

The hills in the distance are miles away and dusty lavender in the haze of August.

I haven't used pastel pencils for a long time and getting used to the

chalkiness is challenging as is the way they blend.

Still, same scene, different.