It was a nice sunny day in early December, just as autumn was leaving and winter was coming in.

Open air painting in the Retiro Park in December of 2016

So I was painting at the Retiro Park and someone stopped to see the painting.  Suddenly we discovered that we had met in San Francisco around 20 years ago.

I hadn’t seen Maria Jesus for a long time. We had lost contact long ago and we ran into each other at the park; small world as they repeatedly say.

The light started changing here.

The light started to change quickly, so I hurried up and finished.

The Retiro Park in Autumn 2016

This is how it turned out.