At about 12:30 ish the sun was out, so I thought that's it off I go. yes the sky was a bit dark, so i gave it a thought first; that's it, packed the easel and umbrella, just in case, behold I get so far down the Blackwater nature reserve, and I see it, that's it that's the scene, so I set up, it was raining a bit, so out comes the umbrella, have you tried strapping an umbrella to an easel, when the wind came from nowhere and take's it, and it seem that the rain is wild, well at this point I was ready to give up, and I had just started, but no I felt like it has taken all this time to get here so one must stay and paint, so on goes my mp3 player and out come's my brush, from that point it seemed ok, well until the umdrella move's and you get this nice little water full,has this put me of plein air painting, no it just make's me want to go out and do it all again, roll on the winter.