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This scene is along a county road that I drove regularly for over ten years. Each autumn I was captivated by the tree, as well as by the cracking paint on the plain, white farmhouse. As the years passed, I never seemed to have the time to capture the image, but luckily it seemed to remain unchanged during all that time. At the time of this exposure it was overcast, which always produces a soft, relatively color-balanced quality of light that brings out the autumn colors very well. The light is sometimes a few hundred degrees above 5500K, but usually not even enough to warrant the use of a slight warming filter. The main advantage, however, is that practically no specular reflections occur from the surfaces of leaves or grass, etc., making the objects appear much more true in color intensity. I finally made this image several years ago, and the very next year the house was torn down. All too often, the quaint rural scenes disappear before they are recorded, as this almost was.