More Texas Sunset

It's been a dreary fall and winter around here, not many viewable sunsets at all, let alone pretty ones. So I'm once again living vicariously through sunsets from the past.

These two are from January 2006. If you bigify the first one, you'll see a lot of black dots along the bottom and along the right that are birds flying.

In this second one, there are no birds (or at least too small to really see) but the sunset is really pretty and the airplane contrail near the top is kinda cool.

Maybe spring will come soon and we'll have not only nice weather but more decent sunsets!

More Texas Sunset

One thing I miss about the house I lived in until a few years ago is the fantastic western view -- my ex and I had several acres of land, most of it behind the house, and then the land on the other side of the creek that generally marked our property line was pretty much farm land so we had no houses anywhere near behind us and a mostly unobstructed view to the south and west (other than scrub brush and trees and one house way far off). Where I am now, I have houses behind me to the west, so I can't really get the impromptu sunset photos that I used to. Ah well, such is life.

So I've once again dipped into my well of past sunset photos to bring you these from February 2006. Enjoy!

It's funny, you can tell the second photo belongs with the first one, it's really just a zoomed-in portion taken about 20 seconds later and you can match the clouds up between the two. The third one, however, almost looks like it was taken another day, the clouds are so different. But no, it was the same day, about 20 minutes after the second one was taken; the clouds just changed that much in that amount of time...

Texas Sunset in Days Past

[knock knock knock] Is this thing on? Yes, once again, life got in the way and I haven't been posting for awhile -- and just when I had thought I was going to be posting somewhat regularly! First one of my kitties got sick and, sadly, passed on a week before Christmas. A couple of other left turns here and there, being busy busy at work, blah blah blah, and before you know it, here we are in February. So let's try again, shall we?

Let's start off the month with a couple of Texas sunset photos from January 2006. The big skies of Texas allow for some really nice sunsets, especially when you get clouds involved. Enjoy!

Texas October Sunset

Texas sunsets don't quite compare to Hawaii sunsets, but they're each pretty in their own way, I think. We've had a lot of rain and clouds around here this fall which have meant there haven't been too many sunsets to see, but every once in awhile, the sun and the clouds work together to produce something pretty (if not quite as stunning as a Hawaiian sunset), and occasionally I even get to see it and if I'm lucky, I'm in the right spot with a camera to take a few photos. Here's a few from this last week:

I love wispy clouds within a sunset. I used to do stained glass as a hobby, and some of the most beautiful glass I worked with had this same wispy look to the patterns.

Does anyone know if this cloud pattern I noted with the arrow has any official name? I always think of those as "footprint clouds" because there are usually 5 to 7 rows of equal length/width clouds with space in between and it reminds me of tread from a shoe.

More pretty wispy clouds...

A bit more of the sunset...and um those darn towers...

Deeper into the sunset, not much left of it. And look at the pretty crescent Moon! Not a bad shot for a simple point-and-shoot camera on auto settings, if I do say so myself.

Coming up later in the week, I'll have some lovely Hawaiian tropical flowers to share. I'm not done with Hawaii yet, oh no, just thought I'd throw in something else this time...