Hunting and Inktober Day 2

Gene rode his trike so I walked to the first shady bench to see how low the water is in our lakes.  It is awful.  Our fisherman neighbor says they are down about 8 feet.  Yikes!

I sketched across the street first, then went to the bench.  These are half page in the Ohuhu sketchbook that is 7.5  by 10 inches, so about 3 x 5 inches each.  Sketched with a Sharpie pen and watercolor added back at the house.  It was getting very warm by about 10:45 a.m.  

For Scavenger Hunt 132  https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-132-oct-02-oct-10.7320/

Number 1 plant/tree

Number 2 water - east lake with a few egrets and some turtles out.

Number 3 large equipment - the caretaker came up on the backhoe, hadn't seen him in a while.  Nice for me.  He stopped just as I started sketching and got off.  Looked around, got back on turned around and went back to do something.  I didn't see the lady get in my photo as I was hurrying to capture the back of the machine.  

It is Day 2 of Inktober with a prompt of "discover".  

This is on the bottom of the page with a Micron 005 and Micron Brush pen.

We discovered this praying mantis on the hummingbird feeder the other day.  It stayed there for several days.  When I took down the feeder for a refill I dropped him off on the porch.  It started slowly moving and I thought it would go back up on the feeder but it did not.