Mountain Sunset

 Alaska Cruise Trip Day 4 – Sunset At Sea

Wednesday closes with a beautiful cotton candy sky and blazing sun streaks skipping across the mountains.

Descendingly

More from the Washburn Park Water Tower.  The tower sits on top of a hill with views of the incoming airplanes, like this one.

Gloamingly

Quite a bit colder this Saturday, especially as the sun finishes setting and the wind whips through the trees.  Spent a brief amount of time by the Mississippi River in a little park in Elk River.  I'm really enjoying exploring new places.

Machinery

 

Yucky

 This looks like a giant, petrified furball that some Kittysaurus acked up.

Lacey

 

Indeterminately

 

Representatively

 As a silhouette, you can't really tell the scale of this lily pad sculpture, but it is quite large.  I think they should put a giant frog on top of it.

Edit: My bad.  I pulled up a picture of the artist's plaque and this is actually a "stylized oak tree."    

The beautiful thing about art is that it's open to interpretation.  I still think it needs a giant frog on top.

Netty

 

Predatory

 

Perspectively

More from Franconia.  In this image, the sculpture looks small.  In the second image, you can see just how large it really is.  It's all a matter of perspective.  I think this is the first time I've been at the park for sunset.  

Candy

 It was a beautiful cotton candy sunset this evening.

Striationally

From a lake walk a couple weeks ago. 

Lavishly

Another shot of last night's sunset, because it was just so beautiful.  Also, Paul Bunyan's backgammon board in the foreground.

Majesty

Beautiful sunset this evening!

Cataractously

I stopped at the dam on my evening commute the other day.  The bluffs above the dam always look pretty in winter with ice cascading down them.

Choppy

On the way home from work this evening, I noticed that the moon was big and crisp and round.  I thought I'd zip down to Lock & Dam #1, since it was on the way, and found this massive flow of ice chunks floating down the main channel of the Mississippi with an ice crust by the shore.

I decided to play around with the pano feature on my phone.  The moon ended up being a tiny dot, but I'm ok with that.  I can always get that another time with my "real" camera.

Techie Corner
I've never had much interest in pano mode, but I'm finding it's fun.  I just wish the full-size image quality was better.  Even the new iPhone 11 Pro leaves a lot to be desired in that department.  Definitely an improvement over the 7/8 though.

Self-scrutiny

A new decade started today.  What will it bring?  

Good times and bad times and times that I sing.

A new decade started today.  What will I do?

Enjoy it and hate it and find a way through.

A new decade started today.  Who will I love?

Friends and family and my savior above.

A new decade started today.  What are my goals?

More caring and doing and feeding of souls.

~Elisabeth Howard 1/1/2020

Scenically

There was a beautiful sunset as I was leaving work last night.

Magestically

Another view during my walkabout last Thursday evening.