Polar Opposite (Sunset, Saturday, 8 January 2011)

William Van Doren, POLAR OPPOSITE (Sunset from Taneytown Pike & New Windsor Road, Westminster, Md.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The sky in Westminster, Maryland, seen from the same spot where I’d recorded the sunset on a 100° evening in July.

Near-Snow Experience (Sunset, Saturday, 4 December 2010)

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

Cold Warm Sunset (Sunset, Saturday, 27 November 2010)

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

Cold air, warm color. Happens. In my experience the small pink clouds are often seen in cold weather.

In a Drought, the Rain Begins (Sunset, Sunday, 26 September 2010)

William Van Doren, IN A DROUGHT, THE RAIN BEGINS (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

In No Mood to Cooperate (Sunset, Friday, 3 September 2010)

William Van Doren, In No Mood to Cooperate (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The sky was in no mood to be pretty, wear something nice, or even talk. The air stayed strangely hot throughout sunset, in front of a wall of gray that the National Weather Service assures us we will experience as ‘Partly Cloudy’. The only evidence that they might not have their National completely up their Service was, I could still just see the mountains.

September X August (Sunset, Wednesday, 1 September 2010)

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

98° today. That was at the airport, three miles distant as the G5 flies. Around 93° in the shade of the porch, under the oaks. That’s pretty fearsome for here.