Heroes Not Zombies

I don’t think I’ve shared a sunset photo with you for a while, despite the fact I have a LOT of sunsets in my photo library. It’s partly because I moved house a year ago and the landscape around this house and the previous one is quite different. Now I’m surrounded by trees in every direction, which helps create the feeling of a comfortable, protected, niche, which is really tranquil and where the commonest sounds to hear are birdsongs. Before I was on the edge of a village in the heart of cognac country, surrounded by vineyards as far as the eye could see.

Both environments have their advantages and their disadvantages. Probably the one thing I miss is seeing the wide open, big sky sunset of the previous house. At certain times of year evening after evening I was compelled to go outside and marvel at an astonishing sunset. This photo is one I took exactly four years ago today.

We humans are instinctively drawn to both the rising and the setting sun. The glorious colours can cover the entire sky giving the impression of walking into the heart of a work of art…..which is what we do every day. This astonishing planet with its abundance of diverse, glorious forms of life, is indeed a work of art.

Sunrises and sunsets have the potential to take the Earth’s beauty to another level. They are, frequently, literally, irresistible.

If you want to experience awe, a sunset is an excellent opportunity, and I find that my sunset photos re-inspire me every time I look at them.

I’ve mentioned this before, but here it is again – a sunset is not really the Sun setting. The Sun isn’t moving over the sky, it’s the Earth which is turning. So a more accurate name for this phenomenon is “Earth rise” as the planet spins and the horizon rises towards the Sun. I don’t know about you, but when I read that my mind was somewhat boggled! And it still is! Amazing, huh?