Early Flight or Late Flight?

Depends on whether it's sunrise,  or sunset. YOU decide.
Silhouette of Egret on
New Orleans Lake Pontchartrain.
piling. One of many support remains  from old camps or piers near shores. Most of them destroyed by storms and hurricanes over the years.

Louisiana Egret

There several classifications of the Egret bird.
This one particular Egret is one of many that can be also spotted in Louisiana.
16 by 20
Acrylic on canvas

Sailboat on Lake Pontchartrain and Egret over the marsh

Lake Pontchartain sky/seascape

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Finally getting the sky -cloud look striving for in this in progress  

16 x 20 canvas, piece  on Lake Pontchartrain.

The photo for this piece  is looking north out onto the lake on

New Orleans' Lakefront seawall.

Back to starting over on the water. so the water shows only the 

under painting in this stage. I might ad a sailboat in the distance before 

calling it done.