Sunset, Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 07:26PM
BVD in Blue Ridge, Prose, Sunset Paintings, snow

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

The big blue-green copper dome extends beyond blue snow mountains, past amethyst clouds, above carved oaks of gray-brown agate, over fields of broken green and white marble, over our house of sugar and salt, and my slate painted with powders of iron and zinc, glazed with ice. Crystalline evening.

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