Over the years, my husband Russell and I would occasionally visit his brother Ethan and wife Brenda at their former Kalispell vacation home in northwest Montana. This painting is based upon a photo that I took in October 2014, just after sunrise in their backyard, which was on the river. I was fascinated by the golden mist that settled on the water early in the mornings, but quickly dissipated when the sun rose higher in the sky.