Winter in Canada has, perhaps, one redeeming feature: I don’t have to get up too early, or stay up too late, to see sunrises and sunsets. Driving from Edmonton to Calgary last week, we saw all the stages of a sunrise at an entirely reasonable hour.
It started by looking as if it was almost done.
Then the glaring sun came into view, its light bouncing off an occasional vehicle en route to reflecting off our car hood.
Then it went crazy.
Whereupon the sky settled down until day’s end, still well shy of suppertime.
When one door closes,
another opens.
When the door into summer closes, at least the door into pretty-and-pretty-accessible skies opens. Although the modern form of this quotation has been credited to Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell, and Cervantes (among others), I’d say credit rightly belongs to whoever wrote the anonymous Spanish novella published by 1554 with an English translation released in 1586; to wit:
This proverbe was fulfild,
when one doore is shut the other openeth.
Or, perhaps, we can credit whoever coined the fulfild proverbe. Thanks, buddy.
Glory unto glory and a timely reminder for me in these chill, overcast days.
Laurna – Yes, the Ontario Overcast is commonplace enough that it merits its own meteorological name. (I think I just gave it one.) Alberta and Saskatchewan get too cold, for sure, but their skies are not cloudy all day.
Wow! I don’t think I have ever seen a photographic record of the many transformations of one sunset. I have seen them, but your photos blow away any commonplace moment of “Oh, lovely sunset”.
Judith – Many thanks. Of course, as a passenger, I was forced to occupy myself!
Gorgeous photos, Isabel.
Tom
Many thanks, Tom.