This painting was done on location in Salida, CO last September during the first Colorado Plein Air event there. After a little touch up back at the B & B we stayed at, it went in a frame and was hung at Joshua Been's gallery for the event show. It's been up in my studio since and eventually I got itchy to FIX it. The weather had been stormy and clouds we're moving fast. That afterstorm gloom shows in the painting, but doesn't necessarily make sense with the vivid colors of the fall grasses in the foreground. I thought the big tree was just too dark.