Marsh and Muskrat friend

As most plein air painters will tell you, there always seems to be some surprises in store when you're painting outdoors. My little surprise this morning was this friendly muskrat who hung around the entire time of my first painting, just moving back and forth in the water, doing some spring cleaning, you get the picture. He was very, very distracting for me!!!! So, I moved on to my second painting and he went out for lunch. Then, I was able to focus on this marsh scene.