This area has special significance to me. Friends of ours have a cabin just south of where the painting is from, and we’ve been visiting the area for many years. In this painting, we can see where the old riverbed was. Just a few years ago there was a major flood and the river completely changed its course, cutting a swath between a farmer’s house and his barn and moving the river about a kilometre north of where it was before. It has been a testament to the power of nature and how environmental change is normal, and to be expected. The river has flooded and it will again, maybe in my lifetime, and maybe later, after I am gone.