Apple Saddlery, Ottawa, Oil on Gallery Canvas, 36x48 inches

Mid-afternoon: my camera captured the precise moment when the bright sun lined up the shadows with the angles of the surrounding subjects in the parking lot. The combination of dry, gritty, gravelly earth, the antique, shiny metal of the car glaring in the sun and the surrounding warm-blooded equine world felt like a flashback to an Edward Hopper painting. It was like being immersed in a centuries-old moment in the middle of the Nevada desert.