Sunset, Thursday, 7 January 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

A few snow showers along the Blue Ridge at sunset.

Earlier I pulled up to an intersection and beyond the red light thought I saw a pink flush over the haze horizon. Colors of coral and starfish, I decided. Long thin white clouds were foam. The blue sky between them turned out to be just that – blue sky. I was surprised to realize everything around me on the ground was the ocean and I was looking up through its surface.