Second mesa sunsets

Last night I walked into my spare bedroom, and this is what I saw through the window:

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. 

Sometimes there are no clouds and the sky lights up the silhouette of the mountains

Sometimes there are wispy clouds

Sometimes the clouds are thicker.
In the summer, the sun sets behind Second Mesa instead of the San Francisco Peaks. 

Did you know that if you turn around and face East, in the opposite direction of the sunset, is another display of color?

It is like a reverse sunset. Yellow on top, then orange, then red, then blue.

Sometimes these colors make me want to paint them!

Sometimes my sunset walks take me on the other side of the health center.

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.