Aug 31 2006
Where Sunlight Flies (Pic of the Week)
I took this picture about two years ago near our home in Missouri.
For fun, I made it into a desktop wallpaper for 1024×768 and 800×600 resolutions. It won’t quite fill your desktop vertically, but please, choose Center, not Stretch when choosing the position.
Quite a while before I shot this pic, I wrote a poem, forcibly rhymed, called “Where Sunlight Flies.” At age 16 or so, I printed it as neatly as I could on notebook paper and placed it on a page preceding various sunset and sunrise pictures in my photo album. The last line was “I wish I could grow magic wings/To go where sunlight flies.”
I wish I could grow magic eyes that would never read that poem again.
Beautiful pic bud…. reminds me a bit of the wallpaper I have on my work PC.
Have a great weekend….
Dave - Thanks. For pics like this, it’s mostly having the camera at the right time. My favorite part is that, in the larger versions, you can see the bottom of the clouds going off into the distance (the dark orange part under the clouds just right of center).
I wish you would post the poem in its entirety so we could mock it openly. (Sorry, I’m going to be on holidays in about seven hours and fifty six minutes, so I’m starting to feel a little unrestrained. I probably wouldn’t mock your poem… much.)
And Dave was right, that IS a gorgeous shot.
Simon - I can’t believe that I typed it all in and almost published the whole thing out here. I wisely held back and gave only a hint of its horror. As I’ve stated before, my poetry of despair and angst are the only pieces that I think are worth sharing, and most of those feelings are gone now, so they stay locked away.
I guess one reason I take pictures of beauty is that I can’t write about it very well.
Well, I won’t mock your poem. It’s a sweet sentiment for a 16 year-old boy.
The picture is breath-taking.
Hazel Hazel - Thanks. And… thanks. Glad to see you still come around.