Plein air with visitors

Wednesday morning was cold and foggy here in Neepawa.  The sun was barely penetrating the haze. It was beautiful and I wanted to try capture that light! So, I bundled up. I grabbed my ancient paintbox and headed for the bird sanctuary at Rotary Park.  Before I even got that far, the view from the little bridge en route took my breath away. Soon I was lost in trying to quickly get everything painted before the light changed too drastically.  I was sitting on the concrete retaining wall just to the side of the bridge immersed in my task when I happened to look down and saw that I had a visitor. A plump little beaver was looking up at me. He and his partner posed shamelessly for the next 1/2 hour.                        Obviously I had to put them in the painting!      

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