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Pastel on sanded paper, 11×14 matted   It was a LONG day There I was in Saranac, MI, for the Dirty 30 gravel bike race. The gun goes off, I push down on the pedals, and…it’s slower than expected. I pull over to the side of the road to check my rear tire and figure out if it’s flat or something. Nope. The right-side rear dropout is cracked. Well there goes my race.   I drove over with a friend who was still going to ride, so I hiked it on over to the nearby Fred Meijer rail trail and walked for about eight miles. Along that walk, I took a bunch of pictures of course. But I also caught one of a couple of vultures perching on the roof of a barn. It was perfect. It was a scene basically asking me to paint it! A note about pastels: Pastels are basically just pigment dust on paper, so you can imagine how fragile they are. That’s part of the reason why I don’t mail them out like prints or watercolors. And so, to the extent that I can manage, I would prefer these to go to local Southeast Michigan collectors so I can personally deliver them.