The Pink Ray (Sunset, Monday, 24 January 2011)

William Van Doren, THE PINK RAY (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

The sky had already been fairly ridiculous, but then a subtle pink ray turned into an all-out, well-defined radiant pink searchlight beam all the way up the sky. Mama said they’ll be days like this ...