Bartram’s Garden gets many visitors, many of them tourists. While I was painting, a group of botany enthusiasts from some southern state became very excited about the bald cyprus that sits in the right side of this painting. They examined its bark and leaves, and were thrilled about its circumference. As I painted, I heard drawling squeals of delight as one of the tree groupies read about the tree's lineage from the tin tag hanging from the bark.