Sunset, Wednesday, 16 September 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

It’s not cold at all but an autumn breeze has been trying all day to move the calendar, getting underneath the masses of still-green oak leaves as if to use them to flip the landscape over like a page going from September to October. Tall thin grasses in the field are tipped bronze and copper, so the farther away the field, the more metallic. Fields in the distance have turned like fields of the future.