For the Sky People….

My dearly, ever-so-loved cousin, Tracy, has a sweet, loveable cousin, Kathy. And since Tracy and I are cousins, I think I’m allowed to claim Kathy also. It’s one of those four times removed, by marriage, after the fall of Rome things.  Kathy is a lover of the sky.  So when my brother kindly called me this evening to let me know there was gonna be a killer sunset and I better get my bu….um…self out somewhere and take some pictures, I immediately thought of Kathy.

I loaded up the camera and tripod into the truck and headed west to get beyond all the houses that have sprung up around us. I have a favorite spot that is along an alfalfa field. I set everything up and waited. The air was not moving at all and even though it’s November, here in Arizona, it was above 90 today. It was warm. The field sits along a high voltage power line and as I sat there waiting, every so often you could hear this weird “thrummm” travel along the line. Okay I’ll say it again…it was weird.

At first the clouds were silver from the sun shining behind them. Little by little the color started touching the bottoms of the clouds and the pinks turned to yellows and oranges at the horizon. Then the pink climbed higher in the sky painting all the clouds above me. It was gorgeous and well worth the wait.

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So Kathy, I hope you enjoy these and next time you’re here the three us will go out searching for sunsets or sunrises (depending on how many margaritas we have by Tracy’s pool the night before).