ARTIST AT WORK

It's Mono Monday and the Challenge is broad/narrow. 
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There's a thriving population of local artists and one finds one or more of them out doing their thing at the strangest times....like early this very chilly morning.  I would have thought that the oil paints would have been quite stiff and hard to work with.  But Lori was using a palette knife early in the day instead of her abundant supply of brushes and it worked very well. Watercolors, of course, would have been colored ice cubes very quickly.
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She is painting The Glenbeulah Springs, known locally to the village residents as The Kiddie Pond.  The Dept. of Natural Resources stocks this spring pond with trout so the kids can do some fishing without disturbing the adults fishing the Mullet River not far away.  Of course, you know what happens....the adults come here first until they find that the banks of the pond are mostly marl and very soft.  After extracting themselves from hip deep mud, they go to the big river and let the lighter little kids fish here.
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Lots of artists paint this beautiful waterway at all times of the year, but especially in the Spring and Fall.  Lori is an excellent artist and appreciates both the broad and narrow nature of this place.
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EXTRA:  the original color frame for those who just do not appreciate B&W.  Personally, I tend to visualize color in B&W and can appreciate all the shades of gray between whites and blacks.  That probably stems from my early photo years in the wet darkroom processing 4x5 sheets of film out of the Graflex camera and then printing same.  Once a part of you...always a part of you.
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Best viewed in Large.