Solar Tower
I saw an incredible solar tower on the way to work yesterday. The sun was just up, but below a hill in front of me, and the tower was a bright pink-orange; it looked almost like a searchlight it was so strong, and seemed to be in front of the pink-purple clouds that were a little higher in the sky (the horizon was mostly clear).
Later as the sun got above the horizon, the tower seemed a bit diminished, but there came a time where the sun was mostly blocked by (bare) trees, and the tower again was more pronounced. It was mostly orange by this point, with maybe a bit of yellow-orange mixed in, and looked less like a tower than a steady jet of flame coming out the top of the mostly obscured sun.
It was gone a few minutes later, when the sun was high enough to be yellow instead of of orange.
2 comments:
Love the Nature Stories category. You've improved your blog design.I
can really picture the shifts in color/light you describe.
The Impressionists were just as interested in change in effects of light on objects.
Monet painted Nore Dame Cathedral in Rouen many times. I recall 4 distinct such paintings.
You paint in words.
This was nothing as subtle as the Impressionists -- what I saw was literally a giant pink-orange searchlight beam pointing up out of the horizon!
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