Sunset, Thursday, 12 August 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 09:46PM
BVD in Commentary, Moon, Prose, Sunset Paintings, Twilight

William Van Doren, Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Later the fire banked to a faint rose, the clouds turned indistinct, and a bat traveled directly overhead against an ambiguous neutral blue. Dewy airs began to settle. A slight silver crescent followed not far behind the sun, and after it a world of watery things.

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