Sunset, Wednesday, 7 July 2010

William Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The National Weather Service at the airport, three miles away, recorded 100° yesterday, 101° today.

This is a sunset more typical of the dog days of August. Haze completely obscures the mountains and, at times, the sun. The sun often appears as a pale-bright disk, very quiet and ghostly considering all the energy it’s poured into our world.