The Not-So-Daily-Sunset

Here's one from a few night's ago,

getting to be Real Spring at last,

barefoot again...

deep sigh...

thank You Lord!

Still Here New Years Weekend 2007

Waiting for the green flash,

Dec. 27, 2007

My Roomie,

gone now but not.

It was a time of great rapport,

sniff,

sniff!

I guess I'll have to do the dishes myself,

from now on.

The complex from my balcony.

It's dirtier in the daylight,

and the paint is peeling,

but the apartments are nice.

My son and I.

He's the best.

The Daily Sunset Catches Up Again 03/20/07

It's the first day of Spring,

and no sunset tonight,

deep sigh!

So I'll post a couple that I haven't shown before.

These are from January's folder,

but they may have been from December.

Enjoy,

be well,

hugs!

Martin

A tall ship below,

The Lynx by name,

taken from my balcony,

just after my nap.

Zzzzzzzz...then I opened the door and,

wow!

I'm gonna buy me one when I win the Lotto,

and take homeless people for a ride,

give them a breath of clean wind...

and then take them and get their teeth fixed...

so they can smile again.

The Daily Sunset Nov. 23, 2006

Too tired for dialog tongith. Just pictures.

The Daily Sunset Nov. 12, 2006

Catching up some with the sunsets.

It was such a great Summer...

that I didn't want to be distracted...

from what was distracting me!

I sure never get tired of it though.
A lone Pelican,

banking,

looking for a little snack,

before roosting somewhere

for the night.

the Daily Sunset Oct. 27, 2006

Blazing orange,

smoke from a fire,

75 miles away.

An arsonist's twisted joy,

kills four firefighters,

and, somewhere in this orange,

the essence of these men,

in some parts per hundred billion trillion

float along in the wind,

through the evening sky...

a fitting homage.

The Daily Sunset Oct. 13, 2006

This one was definitely a keeper.

A sail boat sat off to the side of the sun,

eluding my minds alignment for proper centering...

and then...

took a sudden tack,

right into my cross hairs.

(They must of heard me thinking.)

The Daily Sunset Sept. 13, 2006

I realized last night that I hadn't posted anything since June.

That means no 4th of July pics.

So,

here's some

and then there's a link to a video

with more slip 'n slide footage.

That's my roomie

doing the Superman pose,

heading West below.

Ray (in the green shirt, center stage, in the pic below)

filmed it and

put it together.

Enjoy

(Oh, and, Jeff is the curly haired dude)

(you'll understand that at the end of the flick)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcDcxKdrXHM

The Daily Sunset Returns (every now and then) Sept. 12, 2006

I haven't posted in a while and...

I've been preoccupied and...

taking fewer pictures and...

enjoying more sunsets.

Fall is the best season for

breathtaking sky scapes anyway.

The pictures don't really do this one justice.

It's the time of year when people will stop driving...

and walking...

as if there is a silent version of Taps

playing,

in certain people's hearts...

and they stop and salute...

the flag of The Almighty.

The Daily Sunset June 26, 2006

The Daily Sunset June 25, 2006

A Summer storm sky,

without the storm,

anchored to the ground,

by a kite.

And the sun pokes out,

peering through the cloud bank,

with a masked stare,

lookng for all the world,

like the Hamburgler.

(This opinion is the opinion of the author and in no way reflects the opinion of McDonald's Inc. or any of it's subsidiaries or anyone ever employed by same even through I am responsible for about 20 billion of their "billions served" for which they ought to owe me a whole lot of money but they haven't paid it yet though I am still waiting.)

The Daily Sunset June 24, 2006

A firey cap

for the end of a nice day,

while surfers just float on their boards,

in silent reverence.

The Daily Sunset June 23, 2006

A sailboat races the sunset home,

seeking it's nest among the slips.

...and the number one way to tell that you live at the beach...

(insert drumroll here)

SAND IN THE REFRIGERATOR...

(oh, and beer!!)

The Daily Sunset June 19, 2006

A tranquil evening reflection,

across the sand,

or maybe across,

the sands of time.

And tranquility in more ways than one;

like the loving arms,

of mother Jen,

and baby James.

The Daily Sunset June 15, 2006

A lone surfer exits,

finished riding in the pale gold of the evening sky.

Just another nice evening,

just another end of day,

...just.

The Daily Sunset June 13, 2006

Every scene that I shoot I try to imagine first.

This was a sunrise and I was too late for the colors;

but was a beautiful morning anyway.

A Son Rise June 12, 2006

How do I describe a miracle?

Maybe it's uncountable odds,

against an occurrance,

something that happens,

even beyond chaos calculations.

Or the hand of God,

reaching from above to sway the odds.

I don't know.

But I do know that there's definitely one that's named...

James Nicholas Gibson!

A six pound,

eight ounce,

miracle.

The proud parents...

and rock-a-bye Sweet Baby James!

The Daily Sunset June 11, 2006

A solitary figure and a surfboard,

a dad waiting,

for his daughter and her friend to rinse off.

A double sun reflection,

caused by unknown effects...

odd, that I saw it all,

so rarely am I turned,

away from my Western view...

just talking to a friend.

The Daily Sunset June 10, 2006

Cloudy and drizzly all week,

breaking into Saturday sunshine,

a line of clouds capturing most of the sunset,

then,

just at the end,

it pops out,

to give me a wink,

just before settling in for the night.

The Daily Sunset June 03, 2006

I didn't take many shots on this night.

Too much the same

(see my comments on same Summer sunsets below.)

Little did I know at the time how special this one was.

There wasn't another sunset for a week after this one.

The Daily Sunset June (at last!) 02, 2006

A kite,

sailing the light evening winds,

beautiful in it's simple functionality,

giving shape to

what has none of it's own.

But what's really special

is not the kite,

but what the kite is attached to...

a child!
You see...

the beach is the world's biggest toy.
You can't break it,
it's mandatory that you go play in the dirt,
and then, when you're done, you don't mind taking a bath.

And, oh the laughter...

of a child at the beach...

there's no finer music in all of God's creation.

Here's one where I was futzing with the camera settings.
An end of the world effect.

The Daily Sunset June 1, 2006

So,

after last night's dissertation on

the sunset's all being the same from now on

The Lord says...

yeah right!!

I'll show ya!

Deep sigh!

I love it when He shows me how wrong I can be...

like this.

The Daily Sunset Expanded

It's that time of year when the sun gets regular,
and settles in to an orange Summer basketball...
slam dunking in the evening warmth...
nothing but net.
It's the same every night.
So how do I make the usual...
unusual?
My friend Chris told me to write a poem instead.
I had several good starts but it came back to the same thing,
it was always inadequate compared to...

The Truth.
So,
here is the great poem that is the miracle of the sun.

93,000,000 miles away,
ninety three million,
not ninety four,
not ninety two,
but just exactly the right ninety three million
to enable life to flourish on the earth.
It is the impossibility of a controlled nuclear reaction,
it's exploding force kept at bay by the invisible arms
of gravity.
It emits particles that have no mass,
flung into the void...
traveling forever...
until such time as they run into something.
Like the leaves of trees and plants.
Now, these trees and plants...
have chlorophyll!
Chlorophyll reacts with those particles with no mass that have traveled all this distance and...
give off oxygen...
which all other life uses to stay alive.
So,
with that in mind,
look at the sunset here,
and tell me tonight's is the same as the one from yesterday,
and tell me...
this isn't an endless miracle.

Oh yeah,

and I like being barefoot!

(Just in case you were wondering...

I mean you might be wondering!)

The Daily Sunset May 28, 2006

A couple of good ones from tonight.

Not bad for thinking that we were going to have gray skies all weekend.

Here's a gull cruisin' home,

and one of my son.