The Flats at the Bend

I was out wandering one day in November of 2019, and I found this place.  It's a place with flat rocks that go almost all the way across the Colorado River at Bend.  It's on private property, but the gate was open and some people were about to put in kayaks, so I went to talk to them.  Turns out, the property owners leave the gate open for boaters to put in at this place.  It was a place known to the native tribes also for putting in their boats.  I hope the owners never have a problem with this practice and people can wander down to the river's edge forever.  I took photographs that day and saved them on my phone until about 2021 when I found them and used an image to create this painting.