Do you like watching the sunset?

[peeonme]

I was sitting on my couch and the clouds broke up, the sunlight was beautiful, it just gets me so exited to realize that what I am seeing is 93,000000 miles away, I try in my minds eye to envision what is going on.
We at this time of year are tilting away on our axis, we are orbiting at 65,000 mph and are revolving in a counterclockwise direction.
It would take 4 hours to reach the moon at the speed of our orbit around the sun, since I was a boy I have always has this fascination,
does anyone else get a thrill from it?

 

[GreyUnderscore]

I don't think I ever watched the sun set from beginning to end.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

We live near the Dutch coast (facing) the west and have traveled to the seashore often just to see the sun go down. I enjoy the changing of the colour of the light even more than the actual sunset even more. In autumn everything gets a wonderful orange hue.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Really, GreyUndersocre? ^^ Wow, that makes me sad. Sunsets are wonderful.

Many years ago there was a hilltop in India where we would gather every evening to watch the sunset. The clouds were beneath us, we were so high up. So the sun would sink down into them setting them all ablaze. From another peak, a Muslim cleric sang the evening prayers from a clocktower in a monoaural din that seemed to proclaim the glory of the event. We all smoked beedis, so the air had sweet, leafy scent. And there were also these insects, that would suddenly start chirping and buzzing so loudly they drowned out the clocktower's sound. They began singing about two minutes before sunset every evening, and ceased as soon as the sun sank beneath the clouds. I've watched many sunsets since then, but nowhere else has it been such a symphony.

 

[Vitamin]

Really, GreyUndersocre? ^^ Wow, that makes me sad. Sunsets are wonderful.

Many years ago there was a hilltop in India where we would gather every evening to watch the sunset. The clouds were beneath us, we were so high up. So the sun would sink down into them setting them all ablaze. From another peak, a Muslim cleric sang the evening prayers from a clocktower in a monoaural din that seemed to proclaim the glory of the event. We all smoked beedis, so the air had sweet, leafy scent. And there were also these insects, that would suddenly start chirping and buzzing so loudly they drowned out the clocktower's sound. They began singing about two minutes before sunset every evening, and ceased as soon as the sun sank beneath the clouds. I've watched many sunsets since then, but nowhere else has it been such a symphony.

Ok, that would actually be impressive.

 

[EJMichaels]

I live on the western face of a mountain with several windows on the west side of the house, so I can enjoy them most days. Love it. I wouldn't call it a thrill, but I often stop what I'm doing and watch, and sometimes try to take photos.

We're doing some building, and after a long day of working outside, the sunsets are a special treat.

 

[gsdx]

I used to go out with my dog, sit on a bench beside the river, and watch the sunrise. Sunsets were beautiful, of course, but, at least for me, sunrises were something of an affirmation that I had witnessed the dawning of one more day of my life.

I always found it fascinating that the surface of the Earth is colder than its core. It is the opposite on the sun, and nobody knows why.

 

[Willie Boy]

We've tried watching the sun set.... But "things" always come up.... And we become distracted.

 

[Hotrich]

I love Sunsets. I take photo's of them when I can. Here's a photo:https://forums.justusboys.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1133608

 

[Kyanimal]

Living in a city on the western side of a Great Lake (Michigan), the sunrises over the water are more impressive than the sunsets over buildings. (Though I'm not likely to be awake for the sunrise. )

However, I've been extremely fortunate to have spent a lot of time on Cape Cod where Race Point is the only site in North America where you can watch the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean.

I need to get back out there!

 

[chrisrobin]

Love to watch sunsets - especially when the upper sky is a raspberry-red

 

[bankside]

There is something spectacular about a prairie sunset. When it's followed by an advancing line of storms, even better.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I live in the Great West. The term Big Sky Country is not limited to just one state. We have spectacular views at most times of the day, with or without clouds.

Admittedly, living in high desert, I miss the joy of looking out over water of any size. We don't even have ponds in Albuquerque worth commenting on and the Rio Grande certainly ain't.

Also amazing to me is that our distance from Jupiter swings so dramatically. At perigee, we are "only" 365 million miles away, but at apogee, it's 601 million. Incredible. To think that the light we see has gone the huge distance of the Sun to Jupiter and back to us and so quickly, just boggles the mind.

I once looked up above my home here and saw a dragon:

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Its mouth was more closed before it observed me taking a picture. I got out of there.