About six o'clock in the afternoon, Mildred Brown went down through the fields to the lower pasture.

She wore a gingham apron which covered her from neck to high-topped boots.

She carried in one hand an easel and stool and in the other hand a box of colors.

Mildred came each day to a particular spot in this lower pasture and set up her easel and stool in the shade of a black willow bush to paint a particular scene.

She did her work as nearly as possible at the same time each afternoon to get the same effect of light and shade and the same stretch of reflected sunlight on the open water spaces in the marshland.
And the scene before her was worthy of a master hand, which, of course, Mildred Brown was not as yet.