West Texas sunset!
I have been fortunate to live in Alaska, visit New Zealand and the rain forests of Central America, but I don't believe there is anything as beautiful as a West Texas sunset!!
This evening I took the back way (ie, through the country) from my sister's house to my house. It was between 7:30 and 8:00-just in time for one of Mother Nature's spectacular shows! I couldn't take my eyes off the sky (resulting in a near miss with a bull calf in the road!). Even though I've lived in West Texas my entire life, I still found my heart pounding in awe!
For those of you who don't know what I am talking about I am going to try to describe our sunsets-Texans will realize how futile the attempt is and recognize at once that I didn't do it justice at all.
As I turn onto the back road heading west I look across the miles of flat cotton fields to the mountains (ok, hills to most people). The huge sun hanging above the mountains and fields outlines the rows and rows and rows of windmills slowly turning in the breeze. The sun is just a huge, giant pinkish-orange ball. As it begins to set the western sky turns pink and turquoise. Then as the sun sinks out of sight the few clouds above it glow a silvery color and the mountains become a one dimensional purple drawing on the horizon topped by the barely visible silver outline of the windmills. The entire western sky is now a swirl of pinks, blues and oranges in various intensity from the remaining golden orange where the sun disappeared.
There is no way to describe the colors other then to say they have life...to say they glow or to say they shine just does not do justice. I can only say they are alive!
Maybe some day I will post a picture but I have never seen a photo by anyone-famous or not-that approaches the actual glory of a West Texas sunset!