Entries in Massanutten Mountain (2)

Wednesday
Sep092015

From Blackrock – Sunset, Monday, 7 September 2015

William Van Doren, FROM BLACKROCK. Sunset from Blackrock, Shenandoah National Park, Va. Oil on canvas, 28 x 35.

Wednesday
Aug112010

Skyline Drive Sunset, Tuesday, 10 August 2010

William Van Doren, Sunset from Skyline Drive, Rockingham County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

In a sense this is the opposite of my usual perspective, which is looking up at the Blue Ridge. Here I’m on the ridge, at 3125 feet, looking down (at the Shenandoah Valley). On the way to Big Meadows, below Lewis Mountain. In the haze the ridge of Massanutten Mountain was barely distinguishable.