A sunset and a moonrise

I decided to watch the sunset a couple evenings ago, just as a way to slow down and free myself from some of the frustration and ennui I've been experiencing lately. 

(You'll have to click on most of these to see them full size, a few are panoramas and mobile posting is so finicky anyways.) 

The best sunset in a while

Subject: Lovely Town & Good Company 
Monday the 10th of March, 2014
Walking and running down the street with my sister, the sun setting gloriously brilliant in the West as we anticipated walking the chocolate chip dog.

Saturday Sunset

Introspective Observation: buds on dead growth

It is strange to know that we're having fifty, almost sixty degree days in February. This month started out new-born in a blanket of white, but yesterday we played kickball with some friends at the old stone church, and I didn't need an actual coat until about 9:30 or 10:00 at night. I've heard tell that the cherry blossoms are blooming in Japan, and my dad's cousin's wife's flowers are already coming up in her yard up North. 

We've been about two months ahead of ourselves all year, in previous years too. Remember that June we had multiple wild fires all over my state? Utaha two months ahead and all that. Photographs of haunting sunsets and towering columns of grey smoke, white clouds of smoke boiling over our Eastern mountains. That Summer felt ominous and apocalyptic. But here we are now, roughly two years later, experiencing an early spring that feels like late fall in the winter. It's certainly something to think about, dear. 

The changes this world is going through --ecologically, politically and socially-- should be interesting to observe, and perhaps, to participate in. There's a lot of hope and beauty amongst the pain and corruption, growing in spite of or because of the things that seem so terribly wrong. 

Eight More January Sunsets

Today I went home

(You're probably going to have to click on them to see them in full.) 

Sunset behind a foreground of dark trees on a hike

Sunsets, Sunrises, and Cool Clouds

Sunsets