Sunset, Saturday, 20 June 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.Summer, scheduled for tomorrow, showed up today, although not until after noon.

After a back-and-forth springtime miasma of either too much heat or not enough, and rain in either case, and a close tropical morning about as oppressive as it gets, the superb high blue broke through. An hour or two of heating up all the leftover moisture until it sizzled, and then summer set up its administration.

I was driving home just before sunset, and the green roadside finally had summer depth – countless greens, watermelon green, limousine in shade, tin can green, popsicle and firecracker twilight, Fragonard or Boucher woman on a swing pink and green, baseball diamond emerald under the lights.