Aquarium/Terrarium (Sunset, Tuesday, 17 May 2011)

William Van Doren, AQUARIUM/TERRARIUM (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Rain/Earth (Sunset, Saturday, 14 May 2011)

William Van Doren, RAIN/EARTH (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Blackberry Influenced (Sunset, Friday, 13 May 2011)

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

Doesn’t seem chilly enough to qualify as “blackberry winter,” but the blossoms are out, and we have days that stay gray and temperatures that don't rise.

Ragtop (Sunset, Tuesday, 10 May 2011)

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

Front (Sunset, Tuesday, 3 May 2011)

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

Cheshire Apparition (Sunset, Wednesday, 27 April 2011)

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

You can barely see it – I could barely see it – but way up in the sky, between storms (again), there was an opening of dim remote blue. It lasted only seconds before the rains rolled back in.