Prairie Contemplation

On my last morning visiting the remnant prairie patches in Sumter County it was raining, so I parked by one of the cow pastures that now occupies the historic Wild Horse Prairie to paint this little imagined view through the windshield. Later in the studio I lightly touched it up. It’s the way I think the scene might have looked from that spot centuries ago on a rainy spring day in the Wild Horse Prairie. I replaced today’s pasture grasses and horizon-blocking cedar hedgerows with long views to distant scattered oak groves over a greensward of prairie flowers and grasses.