Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon
Like a magician extended his golden want o’er the landscape;
Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest
Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morning Bray Farm 
December 9, 2010 at 5:44 am
Just gorgeous.
p.s. The window in your vehicle must very clean.
p.p.s. I hope Don was driving.
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December 9, 2010 at 5:50 am
Carson,
Thank you.
p.s. I was also wondering about how all of the bugs on my windshield didn’t show up in the picture.
p.p.s. He wasn’t. I took the picture on my way home last night… it was sooooo beautiful!
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December 9, 2010 at 5:53 am
Lovely poem, and you live is such a beautiful part of the country. We visited there about a year ago now. Would love to come back again sometime.
Suzanne
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December 9, 2010 at 5:58 am
Fantastic photo!
Love the poem too!
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December 9, 2010 at 6:10 am
Okay, hands down your skies (blue, stormy or sunset-y) beat ours in WI. Now that we are officially in winter, it seems our skies are just mostly gray. Blech.
Send some sunshine our way when you’ve had your fill, okay?
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December 9, 2010 at 6:49 am
C,
We’ll be happy to share. I remember the winter gray skies in Maryland… I feel for you.
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December 9, 2010 at 6:16 am
A sky worthy of a poem!
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December 9, 2010 at 6:38 am
Ooh, looks like satin sky!
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December 9, 2010 at 7:05 am
Carson took my post! 🙂
—on the pps part—no taking pictures while driving!
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December 9, 2010 at 7:07 am
CeeCee,
You’re absolutely right… I just couldn’t possibly help it. And I promise I was very careful. 😀
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December 9, 2010 at 8:10 am
WOW.
🙂
ps — if your camera focuses on something very far away (like the sky), close things(like dead bugs on the windshield) may disappear in the unfocused (insignificant for this pic) foreground.
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December 9, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Vicki,
Now that makes total sense. Thank you. 🙂
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December 9, 2010 at 8:55 am
Wow. Now THAT’S a sunset. And, I love the poem, as well.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts & feelings over at my place. For the record, visiting my favourite blogs, like yours, helps to keep my spirits from sinking dangerously low, too.
xoxo
Carolynn
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December 9, 2010 at 11:13 am
Stunning. Sometimes god uses all the colors in the pallet. love it.
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December 9, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Very impressive photo, goes nice together with that poem! You are brave taking photos while driving throug the night.
Pia
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December 9, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Pia,
I don’t know about brave… I think crazy is probably a better word. 😀 I just had to take a picture… it was too beautiful not to.
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December 9, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Mmmm..mmm…gorgeous! Western fire!
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