Today I painted outside with my daughter while my husband and son went for a bike ride at Valley Forge National Historical Park. Since I was a child, the view from the ridge where Route 23 cuts through the park has always impressed me. From this little area next to the parking lot of the Washington Memorial Chapel, we could see quite far into the layers of foliage that distinguished themselves chromatically from each other in the midday humidity of August. While the boys rode a loop around the site of the 1777-1778 encampment of Washington's ragtag band of Revolutionary soldiers, my husband stopped and took a picture of our location from the further hill visible behind the third tree from the left. I'm so glad our ancestors decided to preserve this beautiful expanse of land. Our national park system is truly integral to our national identity.
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Lynn
8/5/2017 09:22:54 am
Love the windswept leaning trees. I was driving home on this road last evening and notices the eggplant colors that are in the painting.
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Julia
8/5/2017 07:09:39 pm
It's funny how that color took a minute to strike me as purple.
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