This piece is another recently finished but begun long ago painting. I was commissioned back in the late 90's to do a "portrait" of a privately owned stretch of the Battenkill River in Vermont. This famous trout stream meanders slowly through some very pretty farm country on the VT/NY border. In this view the river is just to my right but I was very taken by the beauty of the wildflowers along the bank. There is also something mysterious about the edge of where the field has been mowed and the "wild wall" or natural barrier of hip high vegetation begins. Something always makes me feel as though I don't want to walk in there! I think I just don't want to disturb anything. I do like to feel I have left nature as it was when I arrived.