On my last morning visiting the amazing remnant prairie patches in Sumter County it was raining, so I parked by one of the big cow pastures and did this little painting in my car. 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. 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.
