Chestnuts

"Chestnuts"
2.5 x 3.5 inches
watercolour
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It really is fall. The chestnuts have fallen off the trees and the leaves will soon follow. Fall in Holland comes gently and it never reaches the screaming exhuberance of a Canadian Indian summer.

The trees turn shades of light green, orange and brown, and the light becomes muted. Fall is hardly distinguishable from winter here; the seasons flow gently into one another without any excesses in cold or heat.

I painted the last of the chestnuts in the "womb". There aren't even that many fallen chestnuts left: many were crushed in traffic and the rest have been collected. It's funny how everyone collects chestnuts. They really have no use, and there's such an abundance of them and nonetheless, people love to gather them.