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Jul 17, 2006



Dinner was late tonight. We had one of those exceptionally beautiful sunsets. The kind you are unable to turn away from. The kind that draws you outdoors to gaze in awe at the changing colors.
I saw it forming as we drove home. Horizon to horizon, an unusual cloud formation of long, wide, parallel bands, separated by clear sky, stretching west to east with higher fluffy clouds visible between them. I knew we were in for something special.
As the sun dipped lower in the southwestern sky, the clouds began their transformation. Their western edges began to glow. Yellowish at first, than changing, almost unperceptively, to pink. They became luminescent as though each had it?s own inner light and as they turned to salmon, their glow became brilliant against a now intense peacock blue sky. Colors that seemed impossible. Colors that could never be captured on canvas or film.
The sun had slipped below the horizon. The salmon clouds lost some of their glow, drifting into a dusty rose that began to darken to slate grey. The sky turned darker, from peacock to a darker shade of blue. At the horizon, a slip of cream still glowed softly. The last of the sun?s hold on the day. Soon, it too darkened, to a shade of Navaho , and darker still as day surrendered to night. Rose now gone, the clouds are a deep slate against a dark blue sky steadily turning to black.
Night. So soon. Nature's palette set aside. The clouds are again light against the sky. Pale ash grey, capturing the glow of city lights far below. The stars already appearing between the clouds. Bright specks , distant suns. Three planets also grace the sky tonight. Mars, Saturn, Jupiter. Orange, yellow, blue-white, making their westerly journey .
As I turn and go back indoors, I take one last quick look, trying to commit what I have experienced to memory, and I wonder.....How many others were captured by the wonder of tonight's sunset? How many took the time to see the beauty that I witnessed tonight? The beauty of this small blue world.
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