Painted on Crane Creek in Melbourne, Florida in 1956, when the artist was 15 years old. Oak tree loaded with Spanish moss, cabbage palms and a stand of non-native bamboo. On a late summer trip in 1950s to Ivey's department store in Orlando for new school clothes for the coming school year, the young artist-to-be looked at paintings in an art gallery window. He already thought those paintings in the window were superficial work but he liked the way they painted the clouds with a palette knife. And so it is that, in this 1956 painting, he painted his late afternoon sky with a palette knife, too. On thin fabric-covered paper board, a common painting support in the art supply stores in the 1950s.