Challenge Day Three: Santa Rosa Plums

"Santa Rosa Plums"

Oil on Linen Panel "6 x 8"

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On our orchard in Southern New Mexico we have  a couple of old plum trees that are nearly past their time.  The trees were planted sometime in the 1930s during the Great Depression. Santa Rosa plums used to be a popular variety in stores but have fallen by the wayside to the modern genetically altered behemoths you find today. Santa Rosa is also the name of a town in Northern New Mexico found along historic Route 66. Much like the plums, the town is a symbol of a different time and an age that is now gone. With this painting I sought to use rich and vibrant colors to pay homage to those nostalgic pieces of American history that will always be a part of our story from Native American pottery in the back drop of the painting, to old fruit trees, and small forgotten towns along historic highways.