Our friend Jodie invited us to stay at her place near Placerville some time when she was at home in Alameda. In early June, we took her up on it and brought Zim up to her place for five days. Chris Ellsworth and his wife, Claire, are caretakers for the ranch, so Maureen got to have a couple of lessons and some short trail rides. I even went along on one of rides on Zim — my first riding in a couple of years. One beautiful day, Maureen went for a ride with Elka and Chris and I took a photo of them which I used as the source for this painting. I think I did pretty good in showing how great it can be to do a relaxed ride in a beautiful place, which was my intention rather than trying for perfect horses and people.
