Sunset, Wednesday, 10 February 2010

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

(Noon today:)

Flurry-clouds shred south away from the departing storm and shroud the sun in frozen steam, sharp crystals swirl off the snowfields and white out the twisted winds, the woods bend, straighten, and bend again, behind rising and falling veils – the earth is breathing ice, racing through time.