Sunset, Monday, 15 February 2010

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

Snow here since noon, around an inch and a half of new snow, and it just started to lift at sunset. A momentary band of light or of brighter cloud in the west surprised me. After a day so enveloped in white and gray, the color of the light seemed about as exotic as the Great Red Spot of Jupiter.

Full Moon and Jupiter, Thursday, 6 August 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

This was just before midnight. The Southwest Mountains would normally be visible under a bright moon, but dense fog over the Rivanna River in the distance completely obscured them.