Last night I walked into my spare bedroom, and this is what I saw through the window:
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| Clouds aglow behind the Walpi housing complex |
I grabbed my family who was visiting and we walked across the housing complex and watched the end of the sunset over the San Francisco Peaks:
I have never seen sunsets anywhere else like the ones I have seen in the last year since moving to the Hopi Reservation. Every day that I am able, I like to take a walk in the desert around sunset because it never disappoints. I thought I'd take this chance to share some of the photos I've taken of sunsets here, all of them from within a mile of my house.
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Sometimes there are no clouds and the sky lights up the silhouette of the mountains
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Sometimes there are wispy clouds
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Sometimes the clouds are thicker.
In the summer, the sun sets behind Second Mesa instead of the San Francisco Peaks. |
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| Did you know that if you turn around and face East, in the opposite direction of the sunset, is another display of color? |
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| It is like a reverse sunset. Yellow on top, then orange, then red, then blue. |
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| Sometimes these colors make me want to paint them! |
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| Sometimes my sunset walks take me on the other side of the health center. |
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And sometimes a photographer friend happens to be there to make a picture of me making sunset pictures!
Photo credit: Christina Gomez-Mira |
This has been rather more of a photo-album than a blog post, but I think the sunsets speak for themselves. I am ever so grateful to be here in this place enjoying these colors, taking in this space, and breathing this air.
