An Artist's Sketchbook

Pymatuming Lake 6/14/06

Our first camping trip with Chaise, our five month old baby boy. We intended to camp on the beach at Presque Isle in Erie, but the conditions of the beach camp weren't up to our standards (smelled like rotten fish). So we ended up driving back down and staying at Jamestown Camp at Lake Pymatuming. A beautiful fishing lake and hatchery.

It was a nice lazy weekend which afforded me time to sketch. I spent the mornings walking along the waters edge near our camp. The Canadian Geese were everywhere and gave me a good oppurtunity to sketch them up close. I also took the time to sketch what was around me which includes acorns, feathers, leaves, etc. Even some fishing tackle caught up on a tree branch made it onto my page. Even caught a sketch of a Blue Herring Crane across the narrow wetland.