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Yesterday, I had a good time meeting up with the Portland Urban Sketchers in the Irvington Neighborhood. The trees are beginning to change, and we had cool, overcast, morning skies transitioning to honey sunshine in the afternoon, bathing everything in gold. It was the perfect day for watercolor.