Midsummer Sunset, Sandias. 36 x 54.

The face of the Sandia Mountain is composed of a series of knife-like
cliffs that point to the northwest. Every year when the sun comes
north to the Tropic of Cancer there are a few days when the setting
sun lines up with the cliffs and grazes the surface, hitting only the
cracks and edges. Within a week the summer rains begin and the
mountains are not lighted at sundown again until September when the
sun sets due west and illuminates the whole surface to a bright red.
Perhaps it is because they are so rare that I look forward to sunsets
at Juan Tabo Park during the summer solstice. The dwarf oaks in the
arroyos glow green in the shadows.

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