August 6, 2008
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Sunset
Last night, around nine thirty, I noticed some color in the light outside. My windows face east and south. There is no window in the west end of the trailer, all we see out the north windows are trees, and we usually keep them covered for insulation anyway. In June, when the sun sets in the north, I can step out into the road to see the sunset. Last night, with the sun setting about NNW, I had to climb the ladder, which way too soon will be providing Doug’s access to the roof for snow shoveling, to view the sunset and capture it.
The color was mostly pastels when I got up there.
The area just above the setting sun reached maximum color intensity within a few minutes.
I was moving around on the roof, trying to find places where the best color wasn’t blocked by trees.
I hung out until the colors faded nearly to gray. I don’t think I was up there more than fifteen minutes. It was worth the climb, for me. We have had less than four days of sun in the past four week, and by “sun” I mean breaks in the cloud cover to let in an occasional sunbeam. Most of the time, it rains. It saves me work, watering the garden, keeps down wildfires, and has created more green in this always green place (only in summer, of course) than I have ever seen.
Comments (12)
Gorgeous sunset.
It’s beautiful!
I love, love, love sunset photos. Thanks for taking these!
Holy thousand vaginas of Indra!
That’s awesome. Alaska is a trippy place… sunlight at 9:30
Stunning…
@Apocatastasis -
…and I’ve been getting bummed out because the days are getting shorter. Around the summer solstice at this latitude, the sun goes below the northern horizon for a couple of hours, but it doesn’t get any darker than twilight. Four months from now, we will be down to five hours of sun a day. Here in these woods, the sun won’t rise above the treetops to the south for several weeks, and will be so attenuated through the atmosphere that I don’t feel its warmth on my skin from November to February.
Farther north, in Barrow, the sun sets November 18, and rises January 23. From early May to the end of July up there, it doesn’t set at all. Yesterday, it was up for over 21 hours. Alaska is a trippy place, indeed.
Love the pics!!!
Great photos!
Breathtaking….every sunset is breathtaking. You captured one beautifully.
BEAUTIFUL.
Your sunsets are at 9:30 now? Here, they’re quickly getting earlier and earlier. At least it changes quickly at both ends of the spectrum.
I will have to see Alaska someday. There is some kind of ferry boat from Bellingham, WA to Alaska, through inland water ways. I want to do that.
@SeanHarrington - I have taken the Marine Highway both ways a few times. It connects to the Panhandle: Juneau, Sitka, Skagway, Ketchikan, Haines…. From there, it is a long drive into Canada and through Whitehorse, to get into the rest of the state. I wish the ferries could go all the way. There is one route that connects Kodiak Island to the mainland at Homer and Seldovia, but it doesn’t connect with the Inland Passage route. The state keeps threatening to discontinue the ferries because they don’t pay for themselves. That would make life tough for some high school athletes, for example, who use them to go to away games.