common_nature | Photos: Sunset

Tonight I happened to glance out the window and spotted a colorful sunset. So I grabbed my camera and ran outside to take pictures. This gets me started on my goal of taking and posting photos at least once per season. \o/

This is the view of the house yard looking east. The grass has surprisingly much green left for this time of year.

This is the view of the house yard looking east. The grass has surprisingly much green left for this time of year.

Looking west from the driveway, colorful clouds spread behind the trees.

Here is a closer view of the sky through the trees.

This farm lies to the northwest.

This closer view of the farm shows off the pink clouds.

This is a wide view of the sky looking west.

This closer view, looking west and slightly south, shows the clouds on fire.

Some of the clouds have a finer texture.

Farther to the south, the clouds are more purple and gray. Their fine wispy texture suggests ice crystals at high altitude.

As the sun sinks farther, the colors deepen.

Bonus photos: As I was walking back toward the house, I took a few more to show things we've been doing recently.

This is the mulch pile in the forest yard, near the end of the driveway. The very large, darker, coarser part is what the tree guys left. The much smaller, lighter, finer bit is what we made with the chipper.

This is the mulch pile in the forest yard, near the end of the driveway. The very large, darker, coarser part is what the tree guys left. The much smaller, lighter, finer bit is what we made with the chipper.

The tree guys left this pile of logs near the driveway. We need to haul out the splitter and break them up a bit, but they're the right size for our woodstove.

I've been working on this brushpile near the driveway recently. It's hard to see, but toward the left is the pile of branches too big to break down by hand, and to the right is what I'm still working to make into smaller pieces. The big pieces are small enough that we can lean them against the sides of the bonfire pile in the firepit. Progress.

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sparowe

Beautiful! :)

vriddy

Fantastic colours!

ysabetwordsmith

We get that "sky of embers" effect here fairly often and I love it.

full_metal_ox

“Under a blood-red sky…”

(Not quite New Year’s Day, but nonetheless.)

kazzy_cee

Beautiful skies!

We have a good view to the west, and sometimes on the more colorful evenings I like to go out and admire it.

shirebound

Those are stunning skies! "Clouds on fire", oooooh.

That kind of effect is pretty common here. We get days with very textured clouds.

Another one I've seen repeatedly is when the trailing edge of a stratus sheet is just above the horizon. It compresses the sunset into a narrow line of light, with the edge of the cloud lit, but the rest of the sky stays purple or gray.

readera

Thanks for sharing! That sky is so pretty!

I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures.

ravensilversea

Those are gorgeous pictures!

I'm glad you enjoyed these.

bookscorpion

That is a gorgeous sky! I like the first photo of it and the wider one of the farmhouse in particular, the composition in them is so nice

I'm happy to hear that.

One nice thing about taking sunset pictures is that I can find a focal point, lock the focus, then move the camera around until I like the framing. Often it won't focus on the sky, so I aim at a feature on the horizon, then move.