Paint By Number Tree

This image just made me think of an oil painting or a paint-by-number since it's so painterly.  I love it when that happens!  I actually am still playing around with HDR in Lightroom (for those who don't know, you take 3 images at different exposures and the computer "magically" merges them into one shot).  You can see some ghosting in the tree to the right but I think it looks cool so I kept it.  This shot was taken around 6:30pm, under a rather cloudy sky (was hoping for rain but it didn't).  I just played around with the colors.  :)  Nature and technology can mix beautifuly!