Chasing a Summer Sunset

Kathy Riordan

Location: Florida, United States
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 4:49PM

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Sunsets and sunrises have always held special fascination, whether in Vancouver's English Bay, the west side of Maui overlooking Lanai, or the nightly ritual at Key West.

These shots were taken in the Wisconsin northwoods as summer draws to its inevitable please-don't-hurry close, first spotted from a hammock overlooking the lake, a quiet dock, and finally from the lake itself.

I am reminded of the lines from Robert Frost as I witness this. "Nothing gold can stay."

(all photographs taken in the Wisconsin northwoods © Kathy Riordan)

(poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" was first published by Robert Frost in the Yale Review in the fall of 1923, and in 1924 was part of a collection that earned him the Pulitzer Prize for poetry)

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I sometimes wonder what I will do with the gorgeous sunsets I also shoot...the answer comes to me as I view yours, just admire when I see them again.

Beautiful Kathy. Nice quote to go with it.

BuffyW

September 03, 2010 05:15 PM

Wonderful photographs Kathy...makes me want to go to the lake. When I was growing up, my best friend's family had a lake house. After doing that 15 album thing, today has just been a nostalgic day, and now this. Thanks for sharing.

bluestocking babe

September 03, 2010 05:20 PM

Oooh. Ahhh. Mmmm. Thanks!

Deborah Sosin

September 03, 2010 05:21 PM

that's just beautiful...and as a Wisconsin gal, I appreciate it

Nikki Stern

September 03, 2010 05:25 PM

Beautiful--those clouds are amazing!

sophieh

September 03, 2010 05:39 PM

Sunrise is beautiful here in Wisconsin as well, especially when the sun climbs out of the horizon of Lake Michigan to begin a new day. Your photos and words are beautiful.

Sarah Cavanaugh

September 03, 2010 05:42 PM

And judging from the photos, another line from that poem seems appropriate: "So Eden sank to grief." I grew up into young adulthood in Wisconsin and am familiar with the northwoods loveliness. More appropriate poetic lines, from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird": "I do not know which to prefer,/ The beauty of inflections/ Or the beauty of innuendos." Stevens would not have that dilemma in the Wisconsin northwoods: it has both.

Jerry DeNuccio

September 03, 2010 05:43 PM

Dusk and dawn, very special spiritual times...

Patrick Frank

September 03, 2010 06:02 PM

Oh my these are stunning! The last two look like models for some classicist painters... Waning summer, sure enough. Great quote, too.

Delia Yeager

September 03, 2010 06:30 PM

Lovely!

Steve Blevins

September 03, 2010 06:38 PM

Aw, God. Sunset over English Bay. Me and The Redhead sitting on a driftwood log watching the night close in.... Brings back some memories, Kathy.

Lovely photos, by the way.

Boanerges1

September 03, 2010 07:32 PM

Stunning, Kathy, just stunning...xox

Robin Sneed

September 03, 2010 07:38 PM

Gorgeous pictures!

kitd

September 03, 2010 07:47 PM

Just beautiful, Kathy. Have a lovely weekend.

Lea Lane

September 03, 2010 07:59 PM

simply beautiful

vanessa seijo

September 03, 2010 08:27 PM

I love the shot of the tinged clouds in the sky, I can still feel the energy of it.

What a beautiful place on earth you get to inhabit Kathy, it has a real "On Golden Pond" feel. Thank you for sharing.

Sparking

September 03, 2010 11:11 PM

These remind me to breathe...

mypsyche

September 04, 2010 12:12 AM

Ah. Thank you, Kathy.

Joan H.

September 04, 2010 07:38 AM

Gorgeous pictures, Kathy. Thanks for persevering, and for posting the results.

AtHomePilgrim

September 04, 2010 07:45 AM

Gorgeous... and then the lines from Frost.

anna1liese

September 04, 2010 08:35 AM

I can never get enough lovely sunsets! Besides the beautiful colors and light it is also the promise of a new day! And that Robert Frost quote is to true!