Sunsets aren't about the sun; they're about the clouds

[jducoeur]

Perfect moments deserve recording:

The sky overhead is Blue. Neither light nor dark, but that brief shade in between that is simply and platonically Blue. Laid gently onto it is a cirrus patch of dusky rose.

To the West, the background turns to a bright aqua. Squatting on top of the trees is a shockingly orange troll of clouds, opaque to the eye but transparent enough to let the filtered and reddening sun turn it into a spotlight onto the world.

And drawing a line from the other to the one is a lone jet, spitting neon behind it, its contrail so vividly pink that it could be a line of puffy paint sketched onto the canvas, and illuminated by a great black light that leaves the background dark as it lights up the art...

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I saw the orchestra tuning up for that one when I was out with the kids about an hour earlier. There were some great clouds then -- and the mare's tails type we don't get around here much. I'm glad you got to see the main act!

[tafkad.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[kelevcat.livejournal.com]

We had a string of amazing sunsets last week, or maybe there have been more and it was just that I could see them because sunset coincided with the time I was on the bus as it crested the hill on Route 2. During my recent vacation, where we had big sky, amazing clouds, and color that sometimes lasted from sunset to sunrise, I realized how much I miss being able to appreciate clouds and sunset (I'm perfectly happy sleeping through sunrise, thank you very much).