Hold Out

This tree grows on a dyke which was used to flood the rice fields of long ago.  Most of the river we live on is bordered on each side by these shallow, and permanently water logged fields, and if you didn't know better, at high tide, you might mistake these as part of the river itself.  Such an error can leave you and your boat stranded in pluff mud until the tide comes back in -

Watercolor on Arches 140 lb., cold pressed.