Crested Butte Summer sunshine I then added the race

I then added the race name below each bird to help myself and others remember the plumage pattern of each race

Fall-blooming black-eyed susans

Ready to Hang

Hairy Woodpecker

From a watercolor painting by Susan Quinlan

Crested Butte Summer sunshine I then added the raceI have explored wild areas from almost one pole of Earth to the other. The midsummer wildflower meadows in the sub alpine of mountains around Crested Butte stand out as among the most beautiful flowering landscape I have ever encountered. This painting was evoked by several visits and hikes in the Crested Butte area. It is not a painting of a specific scene, but an amalgamation of what I see in my mind when I think of my mid summer visits to that