evening light

Summer heat has arrived. The sizzle of August meets us before sliding into fall.

It has been such a mild summer here on our piece of coastline. I’ve been wondering when the hot days would arrive. So often we get a good blast of heat in October and as the summer ticked away, with cooler than usual temperatures, I kept wondering if September and October were going to be blazing. The heat always shows up, it’s just a matter of when.

Evening Sizzle by Nicole Strasburg. Oil on birch panel. The summer heat has arrived. Evening color over the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, California. Available at Sullivan Goss Gallery.

Evening Sizzle, 14x14”, oil on birch panel