Sunset, Wednesday, 3 March 2010

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

I was making ice cream, as sunset approached, from peaches I had canned about 11 years ago. (I plan to have a small amount of the ice cream after I freeze it, just to test and make sure I don’t poison anyone but myself; but the peaches, canned with honey, seemed surprisingly good.) A blog being what it is (voracious), my mind wandered to whether there was any connection between the old peaches and tonight’s cold sunset.

So, in the name of sanity: No way is there any connection. Yes, I often think of how the horizon at sunset seems like a flowing stream of time, and yes, somewhere back there are the peaches of 1999, seamlessly connected with this moment. But if anyone refers to this painting as the peach sunset, it’s on them.