This was painted and entered in the 2012 Colorado Plein Air Festival. I was painting with Conor and I had to paint quickly and immediately to be finished when Conor was done, this was a true "alla prima painting, wet on wet and no re-touches in the studio. I thought this was the weakest of the 5 paintings that I entered. Was I mistaken, it was the only one chosen and it placed third in the emerging artist category. I was given a three person show at the Humphries-Grant Museum along with the first and second place artists.