Sunset, Tuesday, 6 October 2009

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

The heavy gray cloud ceiling created a room, and within that room we can have our sunset.

Sunset, Sunday, 27 September 2009

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

Today I caught part of the new Ken Burns series, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea – I think we cable-less, Tivo-less people will want to rent this and make sure we get the whole thing.

I was struck by the following rhetorical question – or poetical question – from John Muir:

Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?