Four or five times a year we get dramatic sunsets at our house. It is always a time to stop whatever we are doing and watch as the sun lights up the clouds with gorgeous red, orange, yellow and purple colors. The front of our house, which faces a westerly direction, provides front row seats for watching the show. These photos don’t require any description. Enjoy.
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37 thoughts on “Can Sunsets Get Any More Dramatic?”
avwalters
Red sky at night….
Curt Mekemson
Lots of sailors should have been delighted, AV. 🙂 –Curt
delphini510
Incredible. The sky is on fire. Pure magic.
Curt and Peggy, thanks for sharing.
Miriam
Curt Mekemson
If I had your talent as a poet, Miriam, I would have written a poem about it. 🙂 –Curt
Animalcouriers
I’d like to see them if they could!
Curt Mekemson
Me too, AC. 🙂 If they do, the odds are that it will show up on my blog. –Curt
Agata 40thousandkm
Amazingly beautiful sky! 🙂
Curt Mekemson
That it was! 🙂 Thanks. –Curt
ralietravels
Wow, wow, wow and wow!
Curt Mekemson
Mother Nature wearing her finest clothing, Ray. 🙂 –Curt
GP Cox
Peggy sure knew what she was talking about when she called you to see the sunsets. We were just saying here a few days ago that we have not had any dramatic sunsets in a while!
Curt Mekemson
They are rare enough for us here that they always call for appreciation, G. But when they decide light up the sky, they really do! –Curt
leggypeggy
Sensational. Many thanks.
Andrew Petcher
Stunning indeed!
Stacy
Wow. What a celestial view!
Curt Mekemson
All we needed was a big booming voice, Stacy. 🙂
Stacy
Indeed!
M.B. Henry
WOW! Fire in the sky!
Curt Mekemson
Like fire in the hole? I can see your military historian background slipping out, MB. 🙂 –Curt
M.B. Henry
Haha!! Oooops! 🙂 🙂
Curt Mekemson
🙂
shoreacres
Isn’t it great to watch the colors change? The shapes are something, too. Is that a contrail cutting through them? Neat, neat photos.
Curt Mekemson
Contrail indeed, Linda. I would have preferred that it not be there but it was part of the show. I’m always fascinated by how fast the colors change from bright to faded to gray. As for shapes, it’s a clouds responsibility to stir our imaginations. 🙂
Margy
The sun really does need the clouds in order to make things magic!
The upside to this time of year is that the sunrise and sunset has shifted far enough to the south that we see both from our south facing windows!
Curt Mekemson
Two for the price of one, Margy. It’s the same here. –Curt
Donna Endacott
Not Diamond Springs… but Whoa! what a sky!!!
Curt Mekemson
Can’t remember any sunsets quite as dramatic in Diamond. 🙂
Donna Endacott
Sadly, only with the year’s wildfires. 😢
Curt Mekemson
About the only good thing I can find about smoke, Donna.
CompassAndCamera
Stunning! Thanks for the “northern” lights from Oregon!
Curt Mekemson
🙂 Lights up the whole western sky, Kelly. Can’t capture to whole of it, but what we captured seems unreal! –Curt
Oh, the Places We See
Love these deep-color sunsets. We’ve had a few lately, and the sky is so darkly orange that it looks unreal — as if someone is tinting an old film or something. Thanks for sharing. Happy weekend!
Curt Mekemson
Our thoughts as well on the color, Rusha. It’s like heavy photoshopping except it isn’t. It’s real. 🙂
Oh, the Places We See
And I love it!!!!
biljanazovkic
Absolutely amazing 🌅❤️
Curt Mekemson
Pure poetry. 🙂
D. Wallace Peach
I think the answer to your question is “no, they can’t get any more dramatic.” As an Oregonian, I get those amazing sunsets too, but I’m socked in by trees and we don’t have a view of that big sky. Your photos are stunning, Curt. No wonder you take the time to sit outside and enjoy.