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"Wiest Lake" #545. Original acrylic painting on wraparound panel about 2" deep. 48"x48". $1800

My favorite fishing hole. Wiest Lake is in Imperial County, a little south of the Salton Sea, amidst farmland. This is the view when you first approach the lake from the west. Here is one of the mornings that promised beauty and peace, if not fish.

Inscription reads: "When we came to the lake with our rods and nets and opened our tackle boxes, we paused with bated breath. The beauty had hooked us and the peace had reeled us in."