"Cottonwood Trunk"
by Steve Ausherman
sketchbook drawing
2014

This is a quick sketch that I did of a Cottonwood tree in the Bear Canyon area of the Sandia foothills. Our friends Jenn, Chuck and Jack took Denise and I camping at the Academy cabin that rests at the back of the Elena Gallegos trailhead area. A wonderful night of rustling leaves, stars over the city and campfire coals. S'mores and fleece jackets. Lizards and cactus.