Photograph 43 Sunsets

Love this city!

in San Francisco, after the Illini won their bowl game!

from our excellent day trip to Galena last Saturday, I shot this from the window of the car. Yes, Hubby was driving, so it was OK. :)

may be easier now for me. For my birthday my wonderful husband got me this really great Canon Elph Power Shot, which is a bit smaller and hence more portable, has both auto and manual settings (as well as an easy-to-use video capability), an extra rechargeable battery so I’ll never be out of juice, a great little case with a zippered pouch to store an extra battery and/or memory card – and best of all, it’s not falling apart to the extent it needs to be held together by a rubber band, like my old Sony! So far I love it, and have only scratched the surface of learning to use it.

Now all I have to do is pay more attention to when the sun is setting! :)

We arrived at our inn just before sunset, so quickly dropped off our luggage and headed to the back porch – where this shot was taken. It was a glorious, long sunset and my husband got even better shots with his new Canon.

This was taken right before Christmas from the desk in my little office – you can see the poinsettia plant my co-worker gave me on the window sill.

from my window in my cozy little office. I so love having a nice big window, and it even has a 2-foot-wide white marble sill.

From my car on my way back from dropping my CA kids at Midway airport in Chicago. Wonderful to have them here, but so sad to see them go. _{I will love having my house in order again, though, I have to admit! :)}

to be able to catch some more of these soon – I have a new cell phone on it’s way which has a camera. Yay!

on my way home I saw a near-sunset that had what I think is called a sundog – if you look to the left, you can see a kind of vertical rainbow-ish column. I’ve only ever seen this in the winter before and it intrigued me to see it now, so I had to pull over and snap a shot.