On Thursday night, I woke up a zillion times wondering if it was raining yet. It wasn’t. Mid morning, it rained! Not much, but enough to clear the air. I don’t know the effect on the inferno, but the air stopped having texture.

I can paint another day with the doors flung open and I feel happy! Let’s get started on Yokohl.

Sky and clouds first.

Hills next, painting back to front.

And creek and ground last. Then I set it in the waning daylight to photograph it. After that, I painted the edges.

It isn’t signed yet because of that waning daylight. In brighter light I will probably find a dozen things to fix. This one doesn’t really call for much drawing with my paint brushes, but I will probably figure out a way to do that. Fence posts, wildflowers, grasses, an alligator in the creek . . .