plein air watercolour: Thames River Trestle Bridge

Yesterday was my first paint out with the Gallery Painting Group this season. The weather was wonderful and my husband found a wonderful place along the river where we painted. The trestle bridge, which crosses both Oxford Street and the Thames River was an interesting structure with lovely reflections. We were visited from time to time by pairs of Canada geese. It was a peaceful place to paint even though the sound of traffic crossing the Oxford Street bridge was continuous, and the thump thump thump of someone practising tennis against a wooden wall competed with the bird's songs and the geese honking. Occasionally something would jump in the river leaving beautiful patterns of concentric circles. I was unable to spot the circle maker, but just as we had packed up and were leaving, Brian saw a small mouth bass jump, so maybe it was the circle artist.