Sunset, Saturday, 26 December 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 06:46PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Commentary, Los Angeles, Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology, beach, ocean, snow

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

We managed to get out today after seven days of being snowed in. While we were traveling around the roads and parking lots lined with dirty snow and slush, the sky made me think about the beach in L.A. A strange thing about a city that borders the ocean is that no matter who you are or where you live or how you stand in that city, when you get to the edge, that ocean is yours as much as anyone’s.

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