What attracted me to paint this scene is the blue mountains in the background and the autumn morning light. In the early morning they the mountains were blue and as the sun came up the fields in the foreground became yellow, red and green. After 2 hours, I had my composition determined, covered the canvas with paint, had everything indicated and the colors down. Just as I was calling it a wrap for the day since the wind and heat and flies were getting me about fifteen cows came dancing out from nowhere and stopped right in my face mooing "PAINT ME". So a few more quick strokes and voila. I finished the painting a few days later after returning to my home/studio in Santa Barbara.