Waking to the sun shining down the hall way to my bedroom, I went into the woods before breakfast, wanting to catch the sun low in the sky. Many of the top leaves have fallen from the trees but the lower sections still look a little 'late summer', and the air was warm.
Tilly, our younger dog was up for an early morning run but her mother, Tess, is elderly and stayed in the garden.
Wandering up along the back track and into the top woodland, there were plenty of photo opportunities, but of course, I missed the best. Fleeting and beautiful, a stag ran across the track and disappeared as quickly as it came, leaving me with just time to turn the camera on, missing it.
We came back to see Tess wagging her tail.
I had already made a couple of sketched the other day of a deer, so it seemed only right to get on and paint one after missing my shot today. That is the point of being an artist, I suppose.
Here he is, in all his glory and one I might make into a card for the season - rising of the sun, running of the deer and all that. :)
Another spectacularly bad photograph, even if I say so myself.
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