image title: 

Western view of the Peninsula from the edge of Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, with irrigation
canal and dirt roads


field notes:


view from edge of Tule Lake Wildlife Refuge, over Modoc County Road 111; hot and very dusty from hay trucks, tractors, and pickups on dirt roads; field in refuge being plowed; blackbirds singing; swallows nesting under bridge, flying and singing over the water; California quail courting on the road, killdeer calling all around me


date: on-site painting, begun 5:30-8:00 June 3, 2003; finished 5:00-8:30, Friday June 6, 2003
   
materials: transparent watercolor and gouache
image size: ca.  9 x 29 inches
collection: the artist
   

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