Sunset, Saturday, 15 August 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Some days, topics revolve around each other like fragments in a kaleidoscope. Today it started with wild black cherries and one of my favorite books, Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants by Bradford Angier. Then there was a strange connection, in an odd (even by Wikipedia standards) article on Angier, between him and Stewart Edward White, author of two other favorite books, but books on an utterly different subject –The Betty Book and The Unobstructed Universe. These are books I might, perhaps, find less compelling today, I can’t say, but they had a huge impact when I read them. In fact the connection that cropped up today between Angier and White is exactly the kind of weird thing that was always happening in The Betty Book. 

Then a certain sort of sky comes along and ... for now, the pieces will just have to float.