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Gah! I can’t believe I missed my Wednesday posting target by two whole days! And that, with some wonderful new photos from the island sitting in my camera’s memory card. And here I am on the island again, with more new photos piling up.

Please allow me to share with you this wonderful photo of Sachem Pond and the ocean beyond the dunes, taken at about 5pm on October 2, 2010. Although it’s late in the afternoon, I wouldn’t call it a sunset–but something magical happens when the sun reaches that arc in the sky when the water all turns to pure wild silver.

Views near Golden Grove

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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.

Views near Golden Grove

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It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted a Block Island sunset. For a while there, I was consumed by posts about Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water, and by travel. But I’m home now for a brief spell to catch up.

On the island, the last of the summer tenants have gone, and I hope the summer was all the more delightful for them because they shared our island home.

It’s September already, and autumn. I’m looking forward to returning to our home near Golden Grove in just over a week. So in anticipation, here is a September sunset from last year.

Views near Golden Grove

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I thought you might enjoy this photo of a genuine sundog (parhelion) sighting on the island. It’s unusual because the clouds look more like some hybrid of stratus clouds than like the cirrus clouds that usually produce sundogs. But there must have been ice crystals in these clouds, whatever they were, for the sundogs to form.

Views near Golden Grove

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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.

Views near Golden Grove

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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.

Views near Golden Grove

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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.

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How much difference only a few seconds may make in the way the sky looks as the sun sets! And even at the same moment, how different one part of the sky looks from another!

For this week and the following three weeks, I’ll post 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.

8:08pm

8:16pm