Pine tree, Paso Robles

On my driving way from Yosemite to LA, I could find a big pine tree, apart from the bottom of which was broken and peeled off for some unknown reason surviving the weather well enough to alive himself on a hill near Paso Robles, California. I admired the vitality of the tree. After I returned, I painted it in the studio from the photo I took that time focusing the tree with a beautiful sunshine scenery typical to California.