Golf courses on the Island are magnificent! They are meticulous green opens spaces manicured to look natural. Golf course designers originally place special trees in their designs as targeting markets for various golf distance attempts. Not all golfers know this. I do! I use these special trees in hope to improve my game… During my evening walks I often sketch them in my small field sketchbook as I am already familiar with their remarkable shapes. Fortunate to live on the Fairwinds first hole I had set up in view of a particular tree shape I like. Pleased with the sketch I went back to get my watercolor tray and experienced a wonderful bliss of plein air painting live feeling totally blessed with my proximity to these beautiful old firs. Only plein air allows us to use our vision selectively. Only the tree mattered hence I left everything else out. I love how there was so much white around the tree emphasizing its shapes created by years of winds in the open grass fields. I felt no background, nor foreground, hence left them out of the picture. Note: Original is now signed!