Feeder Stream by watercolor artist Nita Engle

 

"I have often been surprised - even struck - by the luminosity of the outdoors: the woods in certain light, the bark of mixed hardwoods and evergreens, of light shining through and being refracted up from the water below. The light shining through the trees on the water and refracted back to the trees takes on a luminosity, a glow lighted from within.

 

"Wading and fishing is exhausting. The going is rough enough in the stream, but the bank is even worse - trying to maneuver a fly rod through a jungle of tag elders and brush. After all of these difficulties, to find another joy of the woods, a feeder stream entering the main river, is a great joy! It means greater opportunities to catch trout as they wait about for their next meal to enter the river and the best opportunity to paint watercolors." - Nita Engle.

 

Print released 1990