It’s just one picture, so it’s difficult to categorize it as
Photo Essay, but it is a very nice picture.
I took this Sunday evening, March 8th at 7:02 PM. I was just leaving my house to stop by my
mother’s house as I do most evenings, and as I was getting into the car I
noticed someone up the block to the east taking a picture of the sky. I turned west and saw what had been inspiring
him, one of the most gorgeous sunsets I have ever seen. I took out my phone and quickly snapped a
picture. [Short digression: do we still
say we “snap” pictures now that our phones have touch screen cameras? The little mysteries of language.]
Here is the sunset.
Look at all those colors.
They include shades of yellow, orange, purple, and pink. The bare tree branches are silhouette in a
matrix. If the trees had leaves in
spring or summer, the sky would have been obscured. Early March was the perfect time, and having
gone to Daylight Savings Time that morning it had me out the door at the
perfect moment. I looked at the western
sky ten minutes later and it had already started to dissipate. Hopefully that is a sign that winter has ended! I hope you enjoyed it.
