A wonderful cycle ride around the Braunton Marsh today. Autumn coming although the warmth is still there. Quite idyllic in many ways taking time to sit and watch sticklebacks in the crystal clear streams. Watching a kestrel annoy a large buzzard in the blue sky. More pictures for reference taken to paint through the incoming winter nights. Beneath is a previous painting of the same scene completed earlier this year. I think you can see nature gradually taking over again. Al