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.
I’ve been posting photos of Block Island for just about a year now, mostly sunsets, mostly taken from my home on the island, or nearby. Well. Nearby. That would pretty much encompass the entire island, wouldn’t it! But no, I mean *really* nearby. Nothing as far south as Old Harbor or as far west as New Harbor.
But in all this time, I have never posted a moonset. Today, I would like to correct this omission.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mist rises off the water, still cold in May, on a warm spring day.
