Evenings Dusk and Twilight
As the sun slowly begins to slide down, spreading a brilliant orange glow over the blue daytime sky, it is the beginning of yet another daily spectacle. The sky fills with an intense red, changing to a burnished orange, giving way to a lilac twilight. I watch enchanted, the divine hand using broad strokes to change the hue every 30 seconds. Seated on rock looking over the valley or walking along a winding hill road, I watch the orange ball sink behind the faraway mountains. I marvel at the magic brush painting the vast canvas of the sky every evening. I have stopped and gazed at this daily phenomenon as a teen when the Delhi sky wasn't grey. Watched the same orange ball drop into the ocean and the horizon slowly inking over. I see it while driving through vast green fields and along winding mountain roads and on evening walks in the woods. Each time I am struck with the powerful emotions it evokes. Love and wonderment welling up inside, when in the company of th