If You Don't Have Something Nice To Say

I have been in a bit of a funk lately. Well, whatever...

I started this blog when I was in a bit of a funk, my intention was to write something nice and good about my life everyday in order to feel a bit better. Lately I haven't really been writing about anything but what is bothering me. Something nice to say about my life . . . do you hear the crickets.

Just kidding. I have a great life. I have been in pursuit of a photo of a great sunset over the Gulf. Several months ago, Jeff and I went for an evening walk. We arrived down at the pier by our house right at sunset. It was the most amazing sunset of my life. I wished I had my camera. I thought that a photo of that sunset would make the most beautiful blog header in the world. all those lovely horizontal layers. The sky, the water, the grass, the sand. I have been trying to re-capture that sunset every night since that night and it has never occurred again.

We really don't live on the Gulf of Mexico, we live on the Mississippi Sound. It is my understanding that there is a chain of island right in front of us, the water here in the Mississippi sound is very shallow and it is a fertile ground for shrimp and crabs. All the shrimping in the shallow water makes it all very muddy. When you go swimming or just look out on the water it is muddy brown and not blue. But, on that one day the way the sun hit the water it appeared very blue, Caribbean blue, it was amazing.

During that sunset the sky was also the most amazing orange, contrasting perfectly with the blue water. I have never seen the sky that exact color of orange before or again. It was orange all the way across the horizon, not just around the setting sun. Every time I have looked at it since it has been just a small snippet of orange around the sun, not the whole horizon turning bright orange. I think it was due to the fact that there was not a single bit of cloud or haze in the sky over the water and it was fall.

Last evening I went down to the pier with my camera to try yet again and there were dozens of people there with their cameras. I thought it was only a mediocre sunset but they all seemed to think it was something special. I guess it all depends on whether or not you saw the best sunset or not?

My camera has a sunset setting, but it made the photos really orange. When I correct the color I don't like it that way either. It is like when you see the world's most perfect dress and decide to think about it. Then every time you go shopping all you want is that dress and no matter how nice the others are they just aren't the dress you want. Not very uplifting am I? Here are some of my sunset shots...