08 - Pond at Pine River (original oil painting, 5 x 7 in, framed)23 March finds me sitting on the sandy verge of a forest access road called Gunns Road, painting a pocket of tussock marsh in old river channel, a little over 160 metres from a bridge over the Pine River, in Renfrew District, northwest of Killaloe. To my left the steep bank of the pond is overhung by the contorted, mossy barked branches of a majestic Bur Oak. Spring Peepers are beginning to call, warming up in the morning sun in their hiding spots