10"x8" Sun-baked grass hums beneath a high blue hush. Loose, lively strokes sweep a tawny field toward a dark, shimmering treeline, where sparks of warm yellow and orange hint at the season’s first turn. The sky lightens at the horizon, opening the scene and giving the foreground’s scrubby gestures room to breathe—a quick, confident plein-air note held just long enough to catch the heat.