Fairgrounds overcast

I had gone for a quick spin in the truck to see what could be found to sketch.  I rolled past the fairgrounds on Harper Street headed north then turned around above the inersection and headed back. Driving into the parking area on the very north end I could see that the scene I had originally hoped for - of a fellow tending a horse next to his rig - had changed.  Then when I saw this scene out my driver's side window I thought, "that's it!"  As I finished drawing a sketch the sprinkles that had been coming off and on started up again in earnest.  It was gray and overcast most the day on this Tuesday the 7th of July and by now at 5 pm it did not look like any hope of fair weather.  Seems like it was a 4-H group that was having a show in the arena, so there were 15 or so rigs around, most of them to the south in the gravel lot. There was a mother guiding a mount past my truck with what looked like her daughter sitting on the horse -they were getting wetter by the second as I drove away.  The grass and the trees added a good feel to the scene.          The watercolor painting was finished at home from the sketch done that afternoon on Strathmore 400 series 11" x 15" paper in a spiral bound pad.