Throwback Thursday

It's summer vacation and the days are flowing one into another. I spent most of today thinking it was Saturday. I've been taking my son for more car rides now that he is out of school and I've been watching this spot every time I drive by.

I think it's dead. 

Really. I don't know what kind of small trees these are but they didn't leaf out, and we're nearly halfway though June and everything else is green. It survived last year's burn. How can this favorite little spot of mine be dead? 

copse, 2013, acrylic

copse is currently at Paul Henry's Art Gallery in Hammond.