The scene is one the artist often sees on his bicycle commute up to Donvale. There is a wonderful remnant ribbon of pastoral land, particularly on the south side of the Eastern Freeway. It is quite a lush green and is divided up by the giant vestiges of the pine windbreaks that were planted by the farms and orchards that were originally in the area. One of these stands of trees is sharply silhouetted against the rising sun in the background of this painting. The shadows of the twenty or so trees stretch forward to the viewer down and across a sloping field that descends to a small creek that curves from right to left across the middle distance. In the foreground, on the slope that ascends from the creek runs a path that appears on the right travels towards the centre bottom edge of the painting and disappears only to reappear travelling up along the lower left side of the painting. Along the right hand stretch of path a young lad is bicycling to school. On the left hand section of path three young students are also making their way to school, one pair chatting and a younger boy bringing up the rear kicking a soccer ball. They are all bathed in morning sunlight. In the far distance is the hint of the freeway they have to cross in the form of a large tee-shaped light pole.

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