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Cedar Key Salt Marshes
by Linda Apriletti on 4/30/2009 12:35:45 PM

Cedar Key Salt Marshes, 10" x 12"

Painted at the salt marshes before crossing onto Cedar Key.

Our road trip to paint at Fanning Springs State Park the weekend of April 24-26 was a lot of fun. I drove up with my friends Jeanine and Perri and we rented a cabin there for 2 nights. However as we entered the park, the sign on the office window said "...el agua es muy moreno y feo..." translating to the water is very brown and ugly. The heavy rains caused the Suwanee River to overflow into the springs turning them all brown instead of crystal clear blue. And then within 5 minutes of walking on the trail, Perri looked down and a tick was rapidly crawling up her leg and another tick was on my shoe. We ditched the idea of painting at Fanning Springs and instead drove west the next morning to see what we could find of interest in Cedar Key to paint.
As we approached the gulf coast, I slowed down as we came upon the salt marshes before the town. It was morning and the light on the water and marshes was beautiful and we all agreed to paint first at the marshes. The cedar trees distinguished themselves as dark green masses among the pines making up the hammock areas, and the grasses alternated between shades of green, brown and maroon so there was a lot of color in the landscape. After painting about 2 hours we packed up and headed into town for some afternoon refreshments, making a few detours along the way to check out potential painting spots near the water for the late afternoon.

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