Cold Sunsets

To appreciate sunsets, all you really need is an unobstructed westerly view. Luckily, we've got just that, since we face Southwest all along our 2000' of shoreline.

The thing about sunsets is that they are never the same twice.

We get hot reds, and golden sunsets. Pinks and blues, and everything in between.

And sometimes, like this one when the mercury was quivering down there around 25 below, we get lavenders and blues. Cool colours.
But still gorgeous.

Sunsets Shine Both Ways

Nancy and Holly were up in the back fields this evening, just as the sun was dropping behind the far hill. While most of the fields were in shadow, there were still rays of sun hitting the far hillside, beyond the Hidden Lake, and lighting up the trees. It was too beautiful not to share!

The back fields are full of wild berries, apple trees, hornbeam (ironwood), wild sage. This evening there were seven deer up there as well, including one of this year's fawns, still small but no longer spotted.

During the winter, our cross country ski trails cut across these fields and drop down into the Hidden Lake, a black spruce bog that is not passable in the summertime without getting your feet very wet! The spruce bog is a haven for all sorts of animals -- and plants, such as sundew and pitcher plant, growing with the blueberries.

Sunset

There is a magical quality of light in the early evenings this time of year. A softness, and a stillness. We get the best sunsets through the fall. With the colour coming into the trees, the sunset lighting up the sky, and the reflections in the lake, it is breathtakingly lovely out there.


This has to be among the best times of the year to go hiking, or just go for a drive and admire the scenery. But be sure to be back at the cottage in time to watch the sun go down over the lake, and paint it's pictures for you to enjoy.