12 posts tagged “sunset”

We hiked Katahdin in Baxter State Park on June 13. Turns out it was the nicest day all month! The mountain -

From inside the bowl -

The view east from the trail -

The view south and west from Baxter peak -

Looking north from the Knife Edge -

The Knife Edge - the way we came -

Back at camp -

A recent sunset in Portland's Deering Oaks park, where I was skating with my daughter Anna. I love the way snow turns blue in the evening.

Those things hanging in the trees are holiday decorations by a local sculptor, Pandora LaCasse. They hang throughout the park and the city. Here's a close-up of one group of them.

The sun is so low in the sky, twilight starts before 4 pm. Here's last night's sunset - over Maquoit Bay. Low tide, about 4:15 pm.

And here's Crystal Spring Farm, with the recently bred ewes out in the snow. CSF, among other things, is used for breeding sheep from all over the east coast. The ewes are shipped, bred, brought to term, and then returned to their homes. The lambing in the spring is festive and fun. When I see this view at this time of year it reminds me of a photograph in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art of a gas station called "It Must be Winter, the Doors are Down."

Last night's sunset. A few minutes before I shot this the entire sky looked like one of those California wildfires. But I didn't have the camera handy. Then this hole opened up in the clouds and it went from orange to pink. Looks like one of those old religious paintings. All it needs is a hairy old geezer with lightning bolts in his hand.

This was last Thursday, taken from the street in front of my house, standing in the middle of the road (children don't try this at home!) There was a spectacular rainbow a few minutes before, looking east, but I didn't have my camera with me.

Here's a picture of clouds, the kind that seethe and breathe while you watch them.

And sunset later in the evening.

Here's a sunset with an interesting shaft of light in it. I want to call it a sundog, but it's not a typical one.

This was taken at Crystal Spring Farm, an operation held by the Brunswick-Topsham land trust. It has community-supported agriculture & hiking/skiing trails. It's open land at a high point in Brunswick not far from downtown. It's a great place for sky-watching.

Here's another sunset photo, taken a few minutes after the previous one.

And here's a "close-up", abstracted by the digital zoom. It's a terrible photograph, but I like the color.

Here's recent sunset over Maquoit Bay, which is about 4 miles from my home. It's a great place to see the water, shorebirds, etc. You can just barely see a raft of black ducks in the right-center of this photo. There were hundreds of geese off to the right, but they were in the shadow of the shore so I couldn't photograph them. They were honking up a storm.