Sunsets

[Beef Oven!]

Same shit, different day

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That's good shit.

[Flay]

I was driving last Perth on the A9 last night and witnessed the most beautiful sunset I have seen for many years.
I wish I had stopped to photograph it.

[Beef Oven!]

I was driving last Perth on the A9 last night and witnessed the most beautiful sunset I have seen for many years.
I wish I had stopped to photograph it.

Not a lot you can say to that!

[Flay]

Not a lot you can say to that!

Perhaps I was hoping that someone would say they had seen it too. And perhaps photographed it.

Perhaps that won't happen.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Filey sunset, from the Brigg.

[teamsaint]

sunrise today . Since we don't have a sunrise thread.

[cloughie]

I was driving last Perth on the A9 last night and witnessed the most beautiful sunset I have seen for many years.
I wish I had stopped to photograph it.

Did the same driving down Hayle one evening a year or two back - most spectacular sky.
Hindsight is magic isn't it?

[Beef Oven!]

sunrise today . Since we don't have a sunrise thread.

"..........red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning"

[cloughie]

"..........red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning"

Power and telecommunications tend get in the way of a good photo.

[Beef Oven!]

Power and telecommunications tend get in the way of a good photo.

All part of the modern landscape. Nothing stays the same forever.

[teamsaint]

All part of the modern landscape. Nothing stays the same forever.

And the view of The South Wilts sunrise was brought to you by power and telecommunications.

[Beef Oven!]

And the view of The South Wilts sunrise was brought to you by power and telecommunications.

[Serial_Apologist]

In spite of the "Red sky in morn" reference, there won't be much in the way of rain anywhere today - demonstrating the one about the exception proving the rule, which I've never been able to make sense of. The exception proving the rule??

Lovely photo though, teamsaint.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Proving" in the older sense of "testing the validity of", S_A (rather than "showing it to be true"). The same origin of "proof-reading" and "the proof of the pudding".

I might be wrong, but isn't the "red sky at night" proverb referring to the actual sky, rather than the clouds in it? (The atmospheric conditions causing a red hue to the sky at particular times of the day being a sign of bad/good weather?) Clouds generally pick up the red of the spectrum at the sun's angles at dawn and dusk, so shepherds would be permanently confused if they relied on cloud colour.)

Either road up (or neither), I prefer Eric Morecambe's version:

"Red sky at night? Shepherd's cottage on fire."