Cedar Run General Store

For each of 13 years, I have spent a few days in spring in Cedar Run, a very small town in north-central Pennsylvania. Most of the years I have spent a day canoeing on the Pine Creek with a group of guys.

This spring, when we arrived at 5:30 in the afternoon, I decided to paint the scene as it would look at sundown, before the sun passed behind a mountain.

The painting required to days – the second day was sunny, then cloudy, then raining, but as we arrived at the Inn (at the left of the painting) the sky had opened and I had perfect sun to complete my painting. However, it was painfully cold after the sun went behind the mountain.