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A Sunset After All
27 February 2023
The rain was pouring down as we drove home from the skilled nursing facility where we have been visiting our mother. When we pulled into the driveway, we ironically hosed the car down. It had been plastered with pine needles from the tree we had parked under.
After All. Nikon D200 with 18-200mm Nikkor at 36mm (54mm equivalent), f8, 1/80 second and ISO 200. Processed in Adobe Camera Raw.
We rolled the car into the garage, shut the door and took off our pants, throwing the soaked jeans into the dryer for 15 minutes. And still the rain came down.
When we finally got upstairs sometime in the middle of the afternoon, Joyce told us the forecast was for sunshine around 5 p.m. Unlikely, we thought. it was still coming down in buckets from a dark sky.
The sunshine never did quite make it on schedule.
But the clouds broke and we saw a bit of blue sky. As the sun set, the tail end of the storm lit up in flames. We grabbed the camera with the big zoom on it and took a few shots.
We thought we would be in for a show, but the bank of clouds on the horizon swallowed up the light before it could turn all the storm clouds crimson. This was as dramatic as it got.
Oddly enough, though, the colors reversed a bit later as the clouds turned purple and the sky kept the color from blue to gold to orange to red in the last glow of the day. We would have needed a tripod for that shot but we were busy with a fork and knife by then.
And anyway, some sights are best savored in the moment alone.