FALL ALONG THE ROAD

This weekend  we drove along the road for about 7 hours to spend time with our daughters and their families. Hubby did the driving, because like a true workaholic he hates having nothing to do. I mostly read art magazines till we are OUT of Los Angeles, so I don't have to see how he zigzags in and out lanes in traffic jams:). 
(By the way, I had scheduled to post this on Friday 1 pm, but 'It" didn't happen! Sorry!)

When the landscape turns to hills, I take out my camera. Even though we have driven this route tons of times, I still find something I haven't photographed yet (from a moving car).
The pastel I painted below was taken along this road.

For a few hours on another day these clouds kept passing my window (at home) at record speed.  I combined the landscape with the sky. There was no way to paint the sky  plein air. Driven by a strong wind these clouds changed shape every few seconds.

The sky reinforces the urge Fall has for me:
hurry, hurry, get everything in tip top shape before the blanket of winter comes upon us.
(sorry, this pic was littered with many telephone wires. I was not able to remove all them completely without changing the shape of the clouds).

19 1/2 x 11 1/2 Pastel, St. Germain

Do you feel the last sun rays 
of the year, flashes and lighten 

bright colored leaves falling?

Do you hear the wind 
blowing on bare branches?

You see the palette scrapings  
of brownish and reddish tones?

Fall dominating the landscape and 

wind gusts quickly building a canopy 
of billowing clouds above it all.
© St Germain