It's gone down by now, but one I was just watching one of the more spactacular sunsets I've seen in a while. No, I had no idea where the camera was.

Anyway, there was an exceptional amount of orange refelcted off the very bubbly low cirrus clouds..and yes, it is unusual for cirrus clouds to be low in the sky. But the orange was cut by this huge V of pruplish-gray clouds, with the vertex of the V at the western horizon.

Great stuff.

Get any good sunsets from your location?

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Sometimes I will be on the coast to watch the sun set over the Pacific Ocean, or catch it setting over the Olympic Mountain range. These often are truly wondrous sites.

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I've seen quite a few breathtaking sunrises here in Iowa, including the beautful one I witnessed this morning. It's almost like in paintings I've seen...with the dark shadow of the barn or windmill and the bright orange/pink/gold on the horizon.

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When I was a kid about once a month we did dinner at the beach. My dad was a firefighter and worked 24 hour shifts so my mom would pack a picnic and we'd stop and get fried chicken and go watch the sunset and eat. I love watching the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico. Atlantic sunrises and Gulf sunsets, I am lucky to live sort of
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gekkogecko,

It seems that the sunset here wasn't as spectacular as yours, but I did remark to my wife how pretty it was. We also had lots of orange reflecting off the bottom of the couds.

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There often seems to be a special look to sunrises and sunsets. Maybe it's the peace that seems to be more present at those times of the day. Thanks, gekkogecko, for this thread. It gave me good feelings inside.

We get a lot of what a band called, "Asian orange sunsets through

the scrub".

The dust and smoke make for brilliant displays, but give me

an electric pink sunrise anyday.

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Must admit, I DO love a good sunset! We don't tend to get particularly good ones here (not a very nice horizon out the window, either!!) but I did get this one when we were coming back from the T.T. this summer!

Got it as my "wallpaper" now!

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If you really strain your eyes and neck you can see braes near Paisley and to the right, the Old Kilpatrick Hills from our window!!!!!!~~~~~~~We are only 30min or so from Loch Lomand~~~~~~and the sunsets there are beautiful!!!~~~~~~~oh, and the sunsets in Skye take some beating!!!!!!

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I could kiss you Miles&Cassidy! Ohhhhhhhh I miss the sunsets of Mallory Square (or any sunset in the Keys for that matter)! Before we moved back north we had to do a tourist run of the Keys and so we did the sunset/champagne cruise on The Western Union (a gorgeous teakwood sailing ship) once! As far as I remember (cause I did drink alotta champagne...*hick*) it was exactly like your pic! They say if you listen closely....you can hear the sizzle as it sets! Thanks for the memories! *smooch*

And as far as in my neck of the woods.......just this past Sunday evening I happened past my kitchen sink and looked out and gasped! The sky was blood red with hints of turquoise peeking through! I didn't take a pic cause the in-laws were here and they acted like I was nuts in getting so excited over a sunset. After all.....it sets every dang evening.....now don't it? LOL! *raspberries to the in-laws*

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Lixy you should love this one then

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