This weeks images drawn from plants at the Cleveland National Forest, near Lake Elsinore, CA.

Help with species identification welcomed.

September, and the heat of the closing summer depletes even arid plants of life.  
The difference is so slight.

<A few of the first weeks' sketches were triggered by photographs; references cited>

photo: Allen L. Schaben, Los Angeles Times

photo: ?, UVa Magazine

photos: Thomas Victor / Tom Sewell, LA Times

Surges of imagery bled from the screen -- typically in short spurts, and never more than once in a day.


It was the beginning of something.

photo: Brendon Smialowski, Wall St. Journal