Personal Historian to a Cloud – Sunset, Tuesday, 16 July 2013

William Van Doren, PERSONAL HISTORIAN TO A CLOUD. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

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

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?