Sunday, August 17, 2008

The Most Glorious Sunset


The last sunset I witnessed is always the most glorious. Living in Santa Fe, famous for the quality of its light, almost every sunset is "great" but about once a week there is one that is "spectacular".

While I am fortunate to live in an elevated site where sun can be seen setting behind the Jemez Mountains to the west, the entire sky is often filled with wild, neon shades of peach, apricot, lavender, rose, eggplant purple...colors that would be difficult to imagine if not seen first hand.

Often, for such a breath-taking moments, which can stretch into an hour or more, we take a glass of wine or margarita to the upstairs round deck, sit on high stools and allow ourselves to be wowed by such magnificence, as the earth turns and night falls.

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