"I'd like to see a sunset... Do me a favor your majesty... Command the sun to set."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.
-- Joseph Allen, US Astronaut.
Little by little, the sharp intakes of breath and the murmurs and whooping subsided, and they stood there, lined up along the wall, gazing at the wonder of a sunset that blazed across the heavens. Where the sun was sinking, the skies ran with molten crimson that spread above the mountains like watercolor, changing to orange and pink, lavender and gold.
-- Jan Karon,
Mitford-
much love, light and laughter,
ananya.
*~
Scatter Joy ~* - Emerson
