Sunsets

When living among the mountain shadows you are fortunate for a number of reasons. 

One of the most obvious is to be able to see many wondrous kinds of skies.  The summer skies show us crisp blue with huge cotton like swabs of clouds scudding along and fall shows us a display of sunsets that Turner would have drooled over. 

If you can look to the west in the fall and winter the sunsets will amaze and delight you. 

Usually just above the purple mounds of mountains that flow along the western horizon at dusk there is a thick cherry red strip above the mounds and just below a fiery orange slice that streaks from the north disappearing over the far south edge of the horizon.  Above this might be a vivid strip of orange just below a blue sky that arches way up over your head disappearing behind some dark smudges of cloud that seem to dance along the eastern horizon.

            There are, of course, many other kinds of skies that will amaze and delight the eye and I suppose other places too have lovely sunsets but living within the mountain shadows will always provide you with a vast array of sunsets not to be equaled anywhere else.