The hills are adding orange, lime and crimson to their colour scheme. This is the « in between season » not hot or cold, wet or dry – each day has it’s own personality. Below are two paintings originally painted earlier this summer but with the season changing to autumn here they lended themselves to this early fall colour scheme.
The sheep are kept close to the barn probably because we have stray dogs and coyotes in our area. As usual, they chose between grazing or curiously staring at the viewer.
The Rupert barns are always a mystery on how they manage to stay upright. It’s been years since any maintenance. My thoughts are the Irish settlers where proud farmers who built and maintain these barns for their cattle, hay and grain storage. These barns are testimonial to a passed rural life when well built barns, livestock and farm implements were a status of prosperity and success.
