I have been working on this drawing of the Sitka rose hedge that fronts our yard for quite a while. The season moved on between the time I began the drawing and the time I finished it. So, it’s probably more “grounded” than it would have been had I finished it in July. There is the intimation of elementals that seem to rise out of the very shapes of the sepals that contained the buds and eventually shed the roses. Because of the five-petaled nature of the roses (like apples), there feels to be a connection with the stars, as if they are being brought down to earth.

There is less of a feeling of the presence of elementals than I experienced when I did the drawings closer to the solstice. The peak of summer is over and we are on the descent into fall.