Sunset, Friday, 6 August 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010 at 09:40PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology, seasons

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

August is old summer, cumulative, thick, the sun standing, somehow blazing in the haze without an aura, a hot ghost.

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