The unseen

What this photo doesn't show you; the statue of liberty just to the right, or the humidity in the air that makes me feel like I'm walking in soup. It doesn't show the sweat dripping from my clothes or the project I just finished for work. It doesn't show my concern for loved ones back in California, or my lost hopes hovering somewhere above that horizon. But sometimes it is good to let everything fall to the sides and just enjoy one beautiful sunset over a beautiful river. Let all the things that you don't see be quiet, just for a moment.

Sunset in San Francisco tonight was like this.

Slightly enhanced

Brevity/twilight

Went to work... saw a run through...  watched the sunset...

Traffic was slow this Sunday evening. Between the Folsom street fair, a Giants game and the usual Sunday tourism it took a long slow crawl to get to the bay bridge... but I tell you it is impossible to get road rage when the road looks like this;



I love San Francisco.

Heavenly Alchemy...

Oft did I wonder why the setting sun
Should look upon us with a blushing face:
Is't not for shame of what he hath seen done,
Whilst in our hemisphere he ran his race?
- Lyman Heath,
First Century--On the Setting Sun

The setting sun, and music at the close,
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
- William Shakespeare,
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
(Gaunt at II, i)

Catalina

...just some quick pics;

A perfect Sunset

This evening I dropped off my final notes at the theater down at Fort Mason... the warm weather was delectable so I started to walk the Embarcadero towards the bridge... Sunset started with a sigh of cool blue mist...

As the sun sank lower the sky began to glow pink and orange...



... until finally the whole sky was on fire with reds, oranges and purples before finally fading to night.

Wow!

Sunset over the Bay

Sunset came and the flight of gulls stopped me in my tracks.

A congregation paused to see...

... the pink and yellow haze that held us for a moment before the night.