The view from my backyard swing this windy evening. Yes, that's Lick Observatory way out there atop Mount Hamilton.




Direct to watercolor, in Stillman & Birn Zeta sketchbook using a Da Vinci Casaneo brush and a Rosemary & Co dagger brush.

While I was painting, M. snapped this picture of me as I spied a hummingbird hovering in the air.