This just makes me dizzy. And I want to laugh with joy.
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I am especially partial to those sunset moments when the sun approaches the horizon so that the thickness of the air makes it go all gibbous and misshapen. Especially if there are a few clouds about to enhance the effect.
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This is a first: A post about Block Island while I am still on the island. And pictures of the sky and almost-sunset within twenty-four hours of when they were taken.
Yesterday we took advantage of the clear weather to plant a number* of new Rosa rugosas and weed the garden out front. But at about 5:30 I had to take a break in order to photograph the sky. The prediction was for rain starting at about 5am, and the sky was beginning to cloud up with an effect that looked like some kind of aery ocean.
Below it, the ocean and the pond were lit up like some kind of watery sunfire.
Later that evening, the clouds thickened. There was only one narrow sliver of sunset, and that, only for a few moments.
Today, as promised, it’s been raining. All day. Good for the Rosa rugosa.
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We’re back on the island after a winter away, and it is wonderful! Yes, it’s still a bit chilly, especially when the sun’s behind a cloud and the wind is blowing from the northeast, and we’re out planting beach grass. Yes, there was frost on the ground one morning–but the frost is beautiful.
And… we have a morning visitor!
It’s so good to be here…
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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.
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This photo from October 7th captures the sun going down gloriously behind the sand dunes.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
