Sunsets have always fascinated me. Years ago, a superb view was ours without effort: through a back window, with a picturesque gum tree in the foreground.
Sadly, those days are long gone: redevelopment has seen to that: and what remains are mere glimpses.
Fortunately, tonight, a glimpse of red catches my eye, and I do what I’d never done before.
Camera in hand, I speed around the block to a series of vantage points, and almost breathlessly try my luck. As a mere onlooker, the magnificence of the sky: its colours and patterns: is awe-inspiring.
Scientists write dispassionately about how it all comes about: through molecules, air particles, and light rays.
Somehow I prefer just to observe and admire its glory.
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