Shenandoah Floor & Ceiling – Sunset, Saturday, 29 August 2015

William Van Doren, SHENANDOAH FLOOR & CEILING. Sunset from Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Va. Oil on canvas, 28 x 35.

Looking out over the Shenandoah Valley from Big Meadows on the Blue Ridge (on Skyline Drive) toward Massanutten Mountain and the Alleghenies in the far distance.

Back Across the Alleghenies – Sunset, Friday, 11 May 2012

William Van Doren, BACK ACROSS THE ALLEGHENIES. Sunset from Stephens City, Frederick County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

I had driven east across Kentucky and West Virginia, trading places with the sun.

L.A. – Virginia

Mutual of Omaha blinks its superfluous tower light from Wilshire,
I sit writing screenplay in loft looking downtown,
Realize
This isn’t what I really want to do,
I want to be out there,
In all that,
So I promptly end the quest for screenplays,
Walking out into the empty streets,
Walking & walking until I run into something substantial –

It was the Alleghenies.