Our Sunset Evenings

One of the things Trish and I do many evenings is drive down to the National Park parking lot and join all the other people who have gathered there to watch the sunset.  We put the top down on the convertible and join a mass of cars and golf carts who make the same journey each evening.While we are there we often notice the license plates on cars...Texas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Vermont, West Virginia, New York...and reaffirm our thankfulness that we are fortunate to live here all the time and that we only travel to the back of the island to behold this beauty.

Every evening is different and the seasons have their own characteristics as well.  For the past three nights the sunsets have been distinctly unique.  We never tire of studying those unique individuality especially.

Night before last the sun was dropping toward the water when it slipped behind a bank of clouds.  We thought that it was gone when, just over the water, it dropped into sight once again only to be split by a horizontal cloud that visually marked its descent.

This one two days ago had a cloud splitting it.

Last night we saw no sun at all, but the clouds above where it must have been hiding gave us a panorama of color that looked like pink marble.

Even when the sun hides it is beautiful.

This morning it rained until past noon.  This afternoon the sun came out, but the sky still held clouds. When we rode down tonight we were not sure what we would find.  At first it looked like we would again see no sun but would get some brilliant red clouds.  Then...the sun burned its way out of the bottom of the clouds just before sinking into the water and we got a beautiful expanse of opalescent color.

Tonight’s fiery show.

Another reason we live here!