The scene is one the artist often sees on his bicycle commute to work in Donvale on Friday mornings. There is a wonderful remnant ribbon of pastoral land, particularly on the south side of the Eastern Freeway. It is a lush green, divided up by vestiges of pine windbreaks planted for the farms and orchards originally in the area. One of these stands of trees is sharply silhouetted against the rising sun in the painting. The shadows of the twenty or so trees stretch forward to the viewer down and across a sloping field descending to a small creek that curves across the middle distance. In the foreground, runs a path that appears on the right, disappears, and reappears travelling up the lower left side of the painting. Along the path a young lad is bicycling to school, three young students are chatting and a younger boy is kicking a soccer ball. They are all bathed in morning sunlight. In the far distance is a hint of the freeway they have to cross in the form of a tee-shaped light pole.

Collection of the Artist.