Rotation is the Key to Unlock Cloud Shapes

#2216 "Singleton Winter Contrails Cirrus and Deformation" Pixels Link

The meaning of life can be discovered by simply gazing at the sky. For sure there are several steps to take before we get there. My career as a weatherman all started by watching clouds and asking why? Long before I became a meteorologist. Please bear with me – we are going somewhere interesting.

The first step is to look at simple rotations in the atmosphere. In the atmospheric frame of reference, there can only be rotation. Simple rotation sculptures patterns in the atmospheric moisture and those shapes reveal the secrets of the weather.

Meteorologists have historically divided rotation into two classes – either cyclonic, that of a low pressure area or anticyclonic rotation, that of a high pressure area. When looking down at them in the northern hemisphere, cyclonic rotations spin counter-clockwise and anticyclonic rotations turn clockwise. These conventions will become much simpler and more meaningful in a few more posts but let us not rush things.

In “Cloud Shapes and Lines in the Atmosphere” I jumped right to the deformation zone conceptual model by revealing how these simple lines can form in the atmospheric frame of reference. These deformation zone lines can be understood in terms of rotation as well and that is where I am headed - but not yet. These deformation zone lines in the atmospheric frame will reveal their associated rotations. Cloud shapes and the preferred locations of clouds must follow and this leads us closer to the weather. Rotation means everything to the weather and in those truths, somewhere is hidden the meaning of life.

Cyclonic Rotations in the Atmosphere – how do they move? I will use more pictures than words in an effort to make this comprehensible.

Let’s imagine pure cyclonic rotation in the atmospheric frame of reference - the green frame on the right side of the above graphic. If we move this rotation with respect to the earth (the single purple vector in the middle above), the wind vectors that we must measure from the ground can be easily constructed - the purple frame of reference on the left in the above graphic. The "Frames of Reference Equation” goes both ways! The lines following the flow (dashed purple streamlines) look like a tough or a valley from the earth-bound view. These lines can be approximated by isobars on a surface weather map or height contours on an upper air chart. The curvature and spacing of these lines can be handled mathematically in the science of meteorology but there is no need for us to go there.

Pure rotation that is moving very quickly relative to the earth will be dominated by a strong translational vector. The trough following the winds in the earth frame will be shallow and perhaps difficult to see.

As the movement of the area of pure rotation slows in the earth frame of reference (the single and shorter purple vector in the middle above), the translational vector decreases. The vectors defining the pure rotation become a larger proportion of the total vector in the earth frame. The rotational vectors carve a deeper trough in the flow pattern following the winds in the earth frame of reference.

When the rotational speed of the vortex equals the speed of translation, a calm wind is created on the north (top of the earth frame purple graphic above) side of the cyclonic rotation. What meteorologists analyse as a low pressure centre is about to be created on the surface map in the earth frame of reference. A further decrease in the speed of translation must produce an east wind in the earth frame. This east wind invites every meteorologist to analyse a low pressure centre in the earth frame immediately to the south of that wind. You can tell from this 1977 image of a very keen and young meteorologist, that I loved finding those easterly winds and lows.

In 1977 Meteorological Technicians hand plotted hundreds of weather observations on large maps of North America complete with geopolitical lines and terrain. There was no doubt which frame of reference you were analyzing. When the map was completed, the combination of the skills of all of those involved, often created a work of art as well as science. Those are indeed pencils growing out of my ears and yes, I had many more coloured pencils in a plastic case tucked into my shirt pocket. One needed many colours to synthesize the analysis into a mental image of the atmosphere and the processes influencing the weather. Analyzing a weather map was a learning experience. Never stop learning.   

As the speed of translation of the cyclonic rotation decreases further, the low pressure centre in the earth frame shifts southward. The upper trough in the earth frame becomes deeper as the translational speed of the cyclonic rotation in the atmospheric frame decreases further.

When the pure rotation stops moving in the earth frame as depicted in the above graphic, the rotation we see in the atmospheric frame is identical to what we see in the earth frame. That upper trough transforms to a cut-off low when the translation of the rotational centre stops.

I hope you are still with me. I started presenting this material in the early eighties and have lost mostly everyone at one point or another. I have tried describing this process in many different ways hoping that one of the methods will form a connection. Once you get it, you will have it for life. 

The impacts of that rotation on cloud shapes will surprise you... but that is for the next day. 

Thank you for getting this far...

Cloud Shapes and Lines in the Atmosphere

#2216 

"Singleton Winter Contrails Cirrus and Deformation" Pixels Link

This is the grown up version of#1533 "Long Reaching Deformation Zone". The small panel begged for a larger rendition because of the design and the meteorology. I hope that bigger is better in this case. This painting also tells the story of why clouds are shaped the way they are. It’s all in the spin that you put on the moisture. 

Cloud are born, live and die within the atmosphere. We have to view them from our fixed location on the surface of the earth. It is our only option and we see some wonderful patterns. If we want to really understand the cloud shapes though, we need to examine them from the atmospheric frame of reference. When we examine clouds from the atmospheric frame the complex patterns become much simpler.

To view the clouds from the atmospheric frame we need to move with the average motion of the clouds. Let’s consider an area of interest and average all of the winds observed from the earth’s surface to calculate the average surface observed wind within that box. Every observed wind can now be expressed as the sum of this overall average wind and a wind difference. This wind difference is the wind in the atmospheric frame of reference and it shapes the clouds. In other words the atmospheric frame of reference is an observational platform or coordinate system moving with the mean flow of the atmosphere. Some graphics might help. 

In the above graphic our simple atmosphere consists of four points. In this simplest case for the purple earth frame. These four points are all moving in the same direction and at the same speed. The average of these four identical motions is the same purple vector. In the green atmospheric frame of reference the four points are stationary. They are not moving relative to each other. The winds measured in the purple earth frame of reference are simply the addition of the mean motion of the earth frame winds plus the wind difference measured in the green atmospheric frame of reference for each of the four points. The shape of any cloud will not change if all of the points within this cloud are moving with the same velocity which must also be the average velocity for the box of atmosphere we are observing. 

In the second graphic above we have changed the winds in the atmospheric frame of reference very slightly. Two of the points in our simple four point atmosphere are approaching each other at the same speed. The average of these two atmospheric frame winds is zero so they do not change the average wind in our atmospheric box at all. If we add these atmospheric winds to the mean wind, the winds as seen in the earth frame of reference are the solid purple vectors within the purple box. Earth born meteorologists would simply observe a slight increase followed by a slight decrease in the westerly winds – if we add the points of the compass to our simple graphic (north being upward on the page). Such a minor variation in the west wind would be a challenge to observe. 

However something almost magical is revealed in the atmospheric frame of reference – a line is born in the cloud field! Any moisture within our simple atmosphere must be stretched parallel to the green double headed arrow which is the symbol for the deformation zone. The deformation zone is my favourite meteorological tool and I helped to discover the mysteries behind it. The shape of cloud line in the sky and the deformation zone can reveal everything about that portion of the atmosphere and the weather. 

The variations in the wind speed is wind shear and this causes the atmosphere to rotate like a child’s pinwheel. By convention the red “X” is considered to be positive or cyclonic (counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere) rotation of the atmosphere. The blue “N” is considered to be negative or anti-cyclonic rotation cyclonic (clockwise in the northern hemisphere). The right hand rule makes this easy to remember. Pointing your right thumb upward at an “X” also points your fingers in the direction of the cyclonic rotation of the atmosphere. Pointing your right thumb downward at an “N” points your fingers in the direction of the anti-cyclonic rotation. 

Rotation in the atmosphere is very important to the weather but it is even more important in shaping the clouds. The mean wind in the atmosphere may move the clouds around but it is the rotation caused by subtle wind shear that really shapes the clouds. In addition and with admittedly great simplification, rising air and thus clouds are more likely located in the quadrants of the deformation zone conceptual model occupied by the red “X”. The opposite and descending cloud free air is more likely in the blue “N” quadrants. 

The observation of a line of cloud in the atmosphere can reveal the subtle relative motions within the atmosphere itself. The power of this conceptual model and the understanding of cloud shapes is remarkable. I have made a career out of unravelling these truths which were once mysteries. There is much more to come. 

There are other analogies that can be used to explain frames of reference. One can think of the atmospheric frame as a box car of a train. All of the box cars are moving at the same speed as part of the train. Simple patterns can be made within each box car through uncomplicated relative motions that are easily understood within each of the cars. Observing and explaining these motions and shapes from the siding outside the train is much more problematic and full of twist and turns. 

The take away truth is that if you really want to understand the clouds and atmospheric motions, you need to live in the same world as the clouds. The secret is to look for lines. 

I will place other simple motions within the atmospheric frame and hopefully, open the beautiful world of clouds up to you… much more to come along these lines… so to speak. 

The Birdman Chronicles

The first Bird Man Feeder (Model 2000-1) was built out of 4 inch sewer pipe. The head unscrewed and seed was poured in to fill the arms right down to the carved wooden hands. Bird Man Model 2000-1 held about 30 pounds of sunflower seed. The Bird Man swiveled with the wind so that the birds could land into the wind as they prefer to do. We had all kinds of birds visit the Bird Man! Chickadees, cardinals, crossbills, nuthatches, woodpeckers... all kinds of birds.

If you dress in the same colour of coat and stand beside the Bird Man, birds will land all over you and feed from you hand. I have even had a woodpecker feed from my hand.  The hope is that anyone who experiences the simple joy of sharing with the birds will be better able to appreciate the beauty and importance of nature. In the accompanying picture, I'm the one on the right- your right.

Sadly, Bird Man Feeder (Model 2000-1) stayed with Watershed Farm north of Hammertown on the very crest of the Oak Ridges Moraine. I am not certain what happened too him.

Plans for the 2020 rebirth of the Birdman were sparked during a Christmas walk through the Singleton forest during Christmas. A flock of friendly chickadees swooped in on us a couple of times. Once the small flock landed on my head, shoulders and outstretched hands. I wanted to feel that again and share the experience with the next generations. I also thought that I could build a better Birdman.

Birdman 2020-1 was constructed out of 3 inch pipe. I did a better job carving the hands and used worn out leather gloves to give the birds the feel of skin when they landed. The  3 inch pipe might be better for the flow of smaller seeds like niger and millet but the larger sunflower seeds really needs the four inch pipe to flow. The Birdman 2020-1 is pictured. The pants are on back order and there is still some tweaking to do.

Birdman 2020- 2 using 4 inch pipe is under construction.

The first more famous Birdman was probably Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/1182 – 3 October 1226). Saint Francis was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. The story of Saint Francis is probably even more relevant today. Francis preached the Christian doctrine that the world was created good and beautiful by God but suffered a need for redemption because of human sin. He believed that people have a duty to protect and enjoy nature as both the stewards of God's creation and as creatures ourselves. Many of the stories that surround the life of Saint Francis say that he had a great love for animals and the environment.

There are many Saint Francis legends and some might even be true. One tells of travelling along a road where birds filled the trees on either side. Francis told his companions to "wait for me while I go to preach to my sisters the birds." The birds surrounded him perhaps intrigued by the power of his voice and apparently not one of them flew away. Saint Francis of Assisi is often portrayed with a birds flocking around him.

There is something almost mystical about bird encounters such as this. The Birdman should make it possible for a few more to feel like Saint Francis of Assisi if only for a little while.

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery 2005 - What has happened in Fifteen Years?

So how have things changed in the fifteen years since the release of The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery? Pictures are worth a thousand words – maybe a lot more. Here they are.

Greenhouse gas emissions climbed by 70 percent in the 34 years between 1970 and 2004. Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rose by 1.8 percent between 2017 and 2018. The burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation has only increased since 2005 although the rate of increase is about steady near 2 percent a year.


Global temperatures have responded to the continuing increases in greenhouse gas concentrations. The temperature deviations from normal during the period from 2014 to 2018 are displayed in the accompanying depiction from NASA. The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the globe. The impacts on the jet stream because of the weakening of the temperature gradient between the equator and the poles are now being felt in the weather patterns.

The resultant rise in global average temperature has been well predicted by complex computer simulations of the earth-atmosphere system that are increasingly inclusive of the physical processes at work. The science of climate change has improved dramatically.

The thawing of the permafrost is a runaway feedback mechanism that will release methane into the atmosphere. CH4 has 30 times more impact that CO2 but is not as persistent in the atmosphere. 

The global ice packs are melting at an accelerated rate as the globe warms. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet has finally caught the attention of the world. Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s. The Antarctic as a whole contains about 90 percent of the planet’s ice and is showing signs of an increased melt as well  Antarctic ice shelves that float on the Southern Ocean are eroding. The vast glaciers behind these shelves could accelerate their slide into the sea as happened in 2002 when the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed off the Antarctic Peninsula. The mean sea level must rise on a warmer globe due to thermal expansion and the melting of the planet’s ice. The rate of mean sea level rise is increasing. 

The melting on the Greenland ice will contribute 10 to 20 mm to the global mean sea level.

About 10 percent of the world’s population live in coastal areas that are less than 10 meters above sea level. Approximately 40 percent of the world’s population (2.4 billion people) live within 100 km of the coast. Rising sea levels, tides and storm surges from stronger tropical storms will have considerable impact. 

The effects of climate change as described in “The Weather Makers” are being observed. The surprise is the speed at which these changes and their impacts are occurring - way faster than it was ever believed to be possible. Incremental influences of climate change can be heard in the daily news. Record breaking daily weather gradually accumulates to become the new uninhabitable climate. Heat and not cold is the biggest threat to all species and not just humans. 

Although the science of climate change continues to improve, there are powerful and influential organizations that refute this knowledge. They are well-funded by corporations that profit from the burning of fossil fuels. These actions have escalated since 2005 and the publication of The Weather Makers.

Climate lobbying has been very effective as demonstrated by the inactions of most of the countries of the world. The rich and powerful have been polluting the atmosphere and oceans for profit. Simple greed. Their game plan is simple but successful. It was used with tobacco, asbestos, CFC's, car pollution, car safety belts... actually a very long list...

• Deny the existence of any problems.

• Pay charlatan scientists to lie and say their products or emissions are safe.

• Finance journals with official-sounding titles to publish bogus articles based on junk science.

• Buy the support or acquiescence of politicians and bureaucrats. 

Canada still relies heavily on the extraction of fossil fuels and is the third highest per capita emitter of CO2 – three times the world average. 

The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) offers an independent assessment at a national scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals. The EPI is a joint project of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. 

The EPI is produced in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF). The EPI ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality. These metrics provide a scorecard that highlights leaders and laggards in environmental performance, gives insight on best practices, and provides guidance for countries that aspire to be leaders in sustainability. Canada ranks 25th in this list.

Not enough has changed since 2005. Canada needs to do much more. Political decisions in recent years have turned Canada in more of a laggard.  Canada still dumps raw sewage into our waterways and continues to dither ... the next generation will pay the price. Truly sad and unacceptable.

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery - Become Informed and Involved in a Good Way

I figure if one is going to have an opinion about climate change, it had better be an informed opinion. I thought I was well informed but there is always something to learn too.

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery was published in 2005 just after Hurricane Katrina. Fifteen years later not much has changed – the North American politicians continue to dither.

The book delivers as advertised. The 356 pages detail exactly how we are changing the climate and what it means for life on the only planet we know. It is thorough and accurate. The earth and atmosphere system is indeed complicated with many feedback mechanisms that swing both ways. The research and science devoted to how humans are interfering with this delicate natural balance has been peer reviewed and closely examined for weaknesses. Simply, there are none. Any unknowns are clearly stated. We have reached the “Act of God” tipping point.

A.P. Herbert defined in “Uncommon Law” in 1935 that an Act of God was “something which no reasonable man could have expected.” The impacts of climate change are no longer Acts of God. Science can prove it and “the judiciary will be faced with apportioning quilt and responsibility for human actions resulting from the new climate”.

The rich and powerful have been polluting the atmosphere and oceans for profit. Simple greed with disdain for nature everything else too. You might also read “Dark Money” described as “The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (2016). “Dark Money” is a non-fiction book written by the American investigative journalist Jane Mayer about a network of extremely wealthy conservative Republicans, foremost among them Charles and David Koch who have together funded an array of organizations that work in tandem to influence academic institutions, think tanks, the courts, statehouses, Congress, and the American presidency for their own benefit.”  Their game plan is simple and has been played without variation on many occasions when their self-centred profits where threatened.  (from “The Optimistic Environmentalist” by David R. Boyd )

• Deny the existence of any problems.
• Pay charlatan scientists to lie and claim that their products or emissions are safe.
• Finance scientific journals with official-sounding titles to publish bogus articles based on junk science.
• Buy the support or acquiescence of politicians and bureaucrats.

Far worse has been done as well but few have been held responsible which is concerning about the independence of the judiciary. Politicians have been known to call judges...

There are many other books that cover similar material. In 2000 Jack Doyle published “Taken for a Ride: Detroit’s Big Three and the Politics of Pollution” in which he exposed the fight and miss-information campaign resisting the creation of clean transportation.  This was in response to the London air pollution disaster of 1952 and the public outcry about air pollution in general. Ford argued in 1953 that automobile exhausts “are dissipated in the atmosphere quickly and do not present an air pollution problem”. President Reagan declared in 1981 that “Trees cause more pollution than automobiles”.  Corporations clearly have enough money to even buy democracy.

Flannery also investigates “the corrupt relationship between government and industry. And it is into this cesspit that we must now leap.” as he described Chapter Twenty-Six entitled “People in Greenhouses Shouldn’t Tell Lies”. The campaign of deceit and spreading misconceptions has been very successful though as employed by the transportation, tobacco, DDT, CFC’s, asbestos and GMO industries to name just a very few.  The result has been decades of indecision when the viable solutions are readily available. The net results being that those funding the bogus science and confusion continue to profit.

The issue returns to one of greed and power. As Flannery explained in 2006, the Act of God Defence will no longer work. The science and knowledge explaining climate change are established just as it was for the other harmful industries. Those profiting from promoting fossil fuels can be held accountable by law.

Real change though apparently needs to come from the people. Elected followers closely study the polls to ensure they remain in power. Power is paramount and it can control you like greed. When the polls tip toward green innovations as they surely must, the politicians will eventually follow. The transition to a circular green economy will not be politically supported until the polls reflect that the public want it.

The impacts of a changing climate could sway public opinion. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires and heat waves can be very persuasive.  I always thought that becoming informed and prepared would be better than waiting for the catastrophes. That is what weather prediction is all about. Being proactive is much more affordable than simply being uninformed and reactive. Meanwhile species are going extinct as the result of our inability to act.

“The Weather Makers” is an important read if you want to have an informed opinion regarding climate change. Time for real, pre-emptive action is long past but better late than never. This needs to get done even if only to tell your children and grandchildren that you tried to make a difference. The school presentations, letters to the Editor, MP, MPP and PM have yet to bear any fruit.  But it is important to remain optimistic for the sake of the generations yet to come.

Canada has a very, very long way to catch-up on the Scandinavian countries that are leading the way forward into a greener future. Meanwhile our politicians are still debating the pros and cons of dumping billions of litres of raw sewage into the nation’s waterways. Shame.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sewage-pollution-wastewater-cities-1.3889072

You might also consider reading “The Optimistic Environmentalist” by David R. Boyd published in 2016. Some parts of the world are actually proving that the circular, green economy is the way forward. Indeed people and the planet can profit while preserving the environment and the habitats of the creatures that also share the globe. This almost happy note is a good book to leave until the last in your efforts to remain informed and involved for a brighter future.

These reads are very important... they are not fake.

Phil the Forecaster

The Weather Machine A Journey inside the forecast By Andrew Blum

As scientists of the Atmospheric Environment Service (AES) and then Environment Canada (EC, ECCC), we all lived inside the Weather Machine. Most retirees portably even saw the “Golden Age” of meteorology first-hand. I define that as the era when meteorologists could look at new data sources, wonder what it was revealing and produce some scientifically sound answers. Satellites and Doppler came on stream just as I entered the AES. Curiosity and keenness were what it took to provide a quality service. It was fun and creative. The understanding and science of meteorology was growing exponentially. Most of us probably never even noticed when meteorology was quietly renamed “atmospheric sciences” – we were too busy learning and creating predictions. Then came the cuts of the 1990’s and beyond… Where we fit into this narrative has evolved during the Golden Age and the Weather Machine by Blum does a credible job pf describing those transitions.
The image shows the library copy that I read but this time I used sticky tabs to mark titbits that I found interesting. There is some very interesting history that soaked up a lot of tabs. Art critic John Ruskin (the very first coloured tab on page 14) wrote in 1839 about building “perfect systems of methodical and simultaneous observations” to create a vast global weather map which he called “a vast machine” aka the Weather Machine. Robert Fitzroy who captained Charles Darwin’s ship the Beagle would call later these “synoptic charts” in 1859.

The story of physicist and meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951) deserved more space. Bjerknes wrote to Arctic explore Fridtjor Nansen (featured in The Ice at the End of the World and the first to traverse Greenland) and stated “I want to solve the problem of predicting the future states of the atmosphere and ocean”. Vilhelm then constructed the seven equations of seven variables that had to be solved to make those predictions “like brushes that sketched the different ways in which air can move around.”

In the Bergen School after the Great War, assistants would gather and plot data maps of Norway. Bjerknes would ask every morning “What discoveries have we made today?” This reminded me of the operational phrase “concern du jour” which I liked to use. They were looking for patterns and they found many. Sverre Petterson arrived in Bergen in 1923 and was thrilled with this approach to meteorology. The big names in meteorology were on the job!

Another World War came and went and the essential importance of weather became even more obvious. In 1946 a camera inserted into the nose of a captured German V-2 rocket showed what the earth and weather really looked like. Weather was not the intersection of Venn Diagrams.  A 1951 United States secret report bore the title of “Weather Reconnaissance from a Satellite Vehicle”. The satellite age of global observations was about to dawn. Observational data was flowing like a fire hose.

Apparently United States President Kennedy was very keen on the weather which resulted in the 1966 opening of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Computers were also starting to advance exponentially. The creation of a simulated model of the earth-atmosphere system became feasible. Numerical weather prediction was not only practical but was growing at breath-taking speed.

Blum goes into detail about the ensuing atmospheric model race and “the Euro” forecasts from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWH). Ongoing advances in the numerical modelling of the earth-atmosphere system are certainly astonishing. These advancements when coupled with the Web and Internet have spawned the creation of weather applications. These apps know where you are and can deliver weather information suited to your needs 24/7. The provision of weather services continued to transform.

The final chapter entitled “The Weather Diplomats” details the work of the World Meteorological Organization. The tactful and congenial efforts of our own David Grimes are positively highlighted as the WMO steers towards maintaining global sharing and cooperation that is required to allow the Weather Machine to perform its vital work.

There is a thread of art and creativity woven through “The Weather Machine”. Meteorologists started as visionary dreamers of what could be. The data sources and computing tools that they created turned those imaginings into reality. The almost independent numerical prediction system now encourages meteorologists to be simply overseers of the forecast loop and to get involved only when things go bad…  Supercomputers, instant global communication and worldwide weather monitoring and weather apps have made human opinions on the evolution of the weather superfluous. The Golden Age of meteorology has created this machine and now maybe is the time for me to go and paint the weather instead…

“The Weather Machine” was a quick read. I was a bit disappointed and expected more content and maybe even some philosophy. This book could have been a magazine article.

I figure if one is going to have an opinion about climate change, it had better be an informed opinion. I always thought I was well informed but there is always something to learn too.

Phil the Forecaster
Eco-artist :>))

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Leeds and the Thousand Islands Township Offices

I have been showing my art in the new LTI Township offices every year since it was built. Sometimes I forget to take the pictures but not this time. Those recent paintings are on display until New Years.

For this and much more art, click on Pixels. Thank you.

Dumoine River Art for Wilderness 2019

Everyone likes an acronym even though sometimes it can be carried away. This one stands for a lot of good things... art, wilderness, camaraderie, creativity, nature and CPAWS too.  Maybe some great food as well. I am taking baked beans this year to fuel the fun. This will be the third year of this plein air event envisioned by my friend Aleta Karstad. It is always a good time.

I concentrate on painting and have completed 67 plein air works there plus two more in the studio since 2017. You can find them all here. I have included #2188 "Dumoine Dances" -  one of the studio pieces.

I plan to swim more this year... maybe paint a bit less :>)

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