Sunday, January 15, 2012


There are moments when we’re privileged to incredible images that, if viewed with scrutiny, boggle our minds with their immeasurable beauty.  The photo included with this blog is one of those.

Carefully navigating my way along a train trestle, timing my crossing to avoid getting hit by the approaching train, I made my way down a narrow winding path littered with fragments of driftwood that’d been bleached white.  Looking off to my side, I hastened my pace not wanting to miss the main event—the purpose of my journey.  Up ahead I spotted it, the perfect spot—a fallen tree washed ashore long ago —to take in the oncoming beauty.  Reaching it, I sat, careful not to disturb the small rocks purposefully stacked upon forming a gravity-defying artistic structure.

I looked ahead, a broad smile upon my face.  There, before me, stretching as far as I could see in either direction, was one of the most beautiful sunsets I’d ever witnessed.  The colors that played out before me defied reason.  My mind wondered over how anything could be so spectacular. 

In the foreground, damp sand segued into broiling churn of the ocean.  Snapping a photo, what was captured is the image you see here—white foam forming a perfect arrow that directed one’s eye to the main event Mother Nature presented—a sunset comprised of every imaginable pink and purple hue.  My mind wondered over the beauty as it marveled over how land, horizon and setting sun seemed to meld together in perfect harmony.

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