Monday was pretty grim, with cold rain and drizzle all day long. The clouds started to clear a bit in the evening, but I was so distracted with packing and loading the car that I nearly missed what was going on in the sky. As I took the last load out, I noticed the western horizon had cleared enough that the setting sun was reflecting off the tops of the trees in the east. The rich, warm sunlight on the green leaves, against the still grey eastern sky, was gorgeous. Then, I turned around and saw that the western horizon was luminescent. I didn’t think there’d be much of a sunset, but I stayed outside to see if I could catch some crepuscular rays. There weren’t any, but the sky began to shift toward the gold, then orange, so I thought maybe there would be a pretty sunset after all. While I was waiting for the colors to shift some more, I turned around to check the progress of the sunlight on the eastern trees. Rainbow! I shot photos of it until it faded, then turned around to check on the sunset again. It had shifted to an even brighter gold, then peachy tones started to creep in as the sky above faded to dark blue. The colors shifted so rapidly that you could almost watch them change. The show continued long past the point where I was able to get decent photos. Even when the sky was nearly black, there was a sliver of red above the western horizon.
Oh, and did I mention the chill in the air? I was standing out in the wet grass, barefoot, and was able to see my breath. My feet were like blocks of ice when I finally went back indoors. Fall is here, folks! The trees are beginning to change color, it’s been down in the low 40s at night, and the early morning stars, when the sky isn’t overcast, are brilliant.
red paper boat 