This is not the painting that I alluded to in my July 1st 2002 journal entry -- the one I traded for a weekend's stay at the Chestnut Hill Inn -- but it is the one I began that weekend, standing under the trees at the top of an embankment in Milford, New Jersey, on a hot day in June of 2002, looking across the Delaware at Pennsylvania.
I executed two versions of this view, actually -- the other one is less wide than this, and the light key was slightly different.
It took about six hours to complete this painting, all told, in three sessions.