Saturday
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Sunset, Saturday, 18 July 2009
The sun going down on a mostly clear summer day, a dark green atmosphere starting to form underneath the great oaks – darker for the brightness of the sunset – puts me in mind of the evening trees and green lawns of West Egg, in the spaces between Nick Carraway’s cottage and Gatsby’s mansion. Pretty funny, considering I’m standing in a yard that hasn’t been mowed in a few weeks, looking past a garden waist-high with weeds, and the nearest party is likely to consist of a few drunken yahoos screaming and tossing bottles out by the county road. But thanks, Scott Fitzgerald, for creating this part of the world for me, this atmosphere under the trees.
Posted on Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 09:10PM | by BVD | in Sunset Paintings | tagged Albemarle County, Blue Ridge, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stony Point, The Great Gatsby | | Comments Off