Here by Glimpses Known

[wayfaringwordhack]

A sunset snapped in panoramic (and power-line) glory from our balcony. I don't think I wax poetic often enough about sunsets, and given the spiritual uplifting I experience when witness to a particularly lovely one, that's rather surprising. I guess part of that is because it's been a while--years in fact--since I've seen a breathtaking one. No sun-bathed hues I've seen in France or even in tropical locations like the Maldives or Mayotte can compete with the magnificence of the sunsets I stopped work and play to enjoy in Texas and New Mexico. The paradisiac locales lack the necessary dirt in the air. *g* Sorry about the wideness of the photo, but I made it as small as I reasonably could. :P

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned.... To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. --Vivian, a personage created by Oscar Wilde*

*Vivian is a twit. I heart Wilde.

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

How beautiful!

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

*nods* and there is another pretty one now. Excuse me while I go check it out. :D

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

So beautiful. I'll even forgive you for not putting dirt in the air to make it even better :p

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

*lol* I can just imagine what my neighbors would say to that. I already think they believe me weird for having a camera in my hands all the time, snapping the view over their downhill-from-us house.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

Usually when the formatting of my friends page is screwed up by large photos I am all "grrrr" but when I got to your photo all I could think was "ooooo!"

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

sorrysorrysorry! No more panoramas! *blushes* But I'm glad you liked it. :D

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

No more panoramas!

Don't you dare! :)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't dream of it now that I know it messes up people's pages. :P On mine, it just underlaps the calendar and nothing is thrown off.

Can you tell me if the normal size I use for my glimpses is OK? Julien always says I make the pics so small, but I don't want this panorama thing happening all the time. :P

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

No! I meant don't you dare stop!

(Your other pictures never make my friends page do the spread, though maybe consider a cuttag for the panoramas?)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

oh! *lol*

A cut, now there's a good idea. :P

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous, as always

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

It's such a joy to actually be able to see the horizon again, or at least an island on the horizon and not tin shacks.