The vineyard sits in a valley. Something about the angle of the sun shining over the hills always seems to create a halo of brilliant light on the tops of some trees, while leaving background trees on the hillsides in deep shadow. Trees are varied colors naturally even if evergreen, and some have Fall changes as well. So that corona effect on the central trees and the rushes behind were what I was capturing. Also, at that angle the shape of the central tree was repeated in the trees behind it and mirrored in the water reflections. So that added a chevron sort of abstractness to the scene. Fun to paint something different, since I've done so many of the vines around there already.