In early spring, a bald white tree trunk and a red-leafed shrub in the foreground dominate rolling hills bathed in the yellow ochre of dried grasses. This is cattle country. There is fencing on the right side, and thin clouds dispensing rain, drifting through the sky.
"VERONICA PLEWMAN 2006" and inscribed "16 x 16" on the canvas overlap of the left stretcher bar; and inscribed "SPRING RAIN over the VALLEY (MERRITT, BC)" (40.6x 40.6" cm) in the same manner on the canvas overlap; and "OIL and COLD WAX ON CANVAS not varnished" in the same manner on the canvas overlap on the right. . See photo.
