Liege Hill, Black Planting and Cinder Hole, East Yorkshire. 12x10 inch oil on canvas board.

A painting near South Dalton.
A lazy kite flaps on a sunlit, 2 degree day,
It slowly alights on the highest branch
Facing the sun it sits warming its breast.
I disembark the car, using bins to look more closely.
The motionless bird is watched by a sentinel
Large crow.
The hedge on my right is shade darkened
The left hedge, in sun bright
Reveals autumn coloured leaves.
Oranges and pale yellows and dead straw coloured grass,
Dark headed knapweed seed
Stands head high, waiting.
Black Planting crests the far hill,
Form sun highlighted tops
Look down on shaded grass meadows.
I started painting. Firstly outlining the composition with the road dropping to the junction, the position of the trees and then block in the pale cerulean sky. I notice a couple of walkers appear at the foot of the hill. They move over, disappear, near a plantation track on the left. Then, as I am finishing off, they climb the hill, stop, and we chat briefly.