On a prescribed fire, the colors get even more interesting as twilight sets in. That’s what I was hoping to capture (as was the video crew also on the scene) when the last side of the unit was lit off. With a year’s accumulation of grasses and pine straw, and 70 days with no rain, the flame front ran into the burn unit with gusto. It got dark as I painted, so much of my image was based on remembering what I saw in the first 10 minutes of the event.
The pines in this view are well adapted to annual burning that maintains the savanna-like qualities of this section of the historic Wild Horse Prairie.
