It was so good to be back on the island again! Yes, it was cold. And more to the point, yes, it was very windy. But the island is always beautiful. Though we didn’t have much of a sunset last Friday (October 29, 2010), we had a lovely cloud show in the late afternoon. These two pictures were taken around 4:30pm.
This picture was taken only three minutes after the photograph in last week’s post. Sometimes the Block Island sunsets seem to last for hours, and yet they change every minute.
This photo from October 7th captures the sun going down gloriously behind the sand dunes.
This could be the start of a series involving just this one beautiful sunset on October 7, 2010. There’s nothing like a few clouds to add drama to the scene!
As I prepare to leave early tomorrow morning to visit the island again (at last!) my mind goes back to all the years and days I’ve been collecting photographs of dazzling island sunsets, no two exactly the same. Thank you for allowing me to share them!
Today, here is a sunset from almost this time of year seven years ago–October 17, 2003. I am reminded of the traditional Jewish prayer thanking God for keeping us alive and sustaining us and bringing us back around to this time of year again. Yes, we are getting older and the aches and pains and even the difficulties are multiplying, but still–life is very good.
Mist rises off the water, still cold in May, on a warm spring day.
>whew!<
That was a little like being north of the Arctic Circle: only one sunset, but it’s four weeks long!
Time for a break from sunsets. Here’s Sachem Pond on a clear spring day.
This post concludes a four-part series comprising eight photographs of the sunset on July 1, 2010. The series shows the sunset as it progressed from 8:08pm until 8:32pm. These two photos are close-ups of the sky (so to speak!) taken at 8:29 and 8:32pm–enough elapsed time for the sun to go down and for those two people to get their vehicle safely off the bar.
This week, we continue the time-sequenced presentation of the sunset on July 1, 2010. This sequence began at 8:08pm (the blog entry on July 15th) and will conclude next week at 8:32pm. Here are two views at 8:26 and 8:28pm.
Both of these were taken from my deck, but at different magnifications.
Last week, this week, and and for the next two weeks, I am posting in chronological sequence a series of pictures all taken from my deck on Block Island on July 1, 2010 between 8:08pm and 8:32pm. Last week’s view near Golden Grove showed the sunset at 8:08 and 8:16pm. Now we see how the sunset progresses. Here are two views of different parts of the sky at 8:24 and 8:25pm.
