A Sudden Light

The landscape where I travel is filled by  

unusual, dramatic lighting, atmospheric, 

changing moment by moment. As I was 

  crossing the broad plain of the valley one 

  evening a sudden piercing light of parting 

      clouds filled a fleeting and momentary vision 

  of this vast space dotted with small specs 

     of sunlight; a flooding of color in the already 

      falling dim evening tones.  The drama of this 

     moment is something I come back to often; 

      seeing it and it often becomes the subject of 

              painting, as memory for its transcendent character.