Hinman Lake, July ( Clark, Colorado)
Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown, watercolor on paper, 2018
A steep climb, and then a trail through a paradise of aspens; trail meeting this shore in late-morning shadow, sun, sky, reflection. I swore I heard the ratcheting, resonant call of a sandhill crane, but saw no birds when I scanned the sky. Months later, looking at a photo I had taken that day, I noticed a speck in the sky that I thought might be the result of some dust caught on the lens. But a zoom-in revealed the shape: long neck and wings of a crane in flight.-KMB
