Sunset, Monday, 29 June 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Behind the cedar, the box elder, the paradise trees / trees of heaven, the peach and the sour cherry, the great red oaks and their wild grapevines and poison ivy, behind the fields of a dozen deer beyond the trees, behind the woods beyond the fields, woods of white pine and post oak, sassafras, dogwood, redbud and hickory, behind the rocky streams and ravines sunk down in the woods, behind the jeep trails and power lines and the highway and the small near mountain, behind the valleys before the blue ridged mountains, behind the ridge itself, the sun pulls all toward it, brings everything together into one tree, one field, one wood, one stream, one mountain, one great darkness, filled with light.