2015 November 18: After a day of heavy rain and storms, we had a quite unusual and brilliant sunset this evening. The vivid tones were not confined to the sky; shortly before sunset my son looked outdoors and exclaimed that everything - from west to east - had turned a strange color.
I grabbed my camera and ran outdoors just in time to see a large and beautiful rainbow gleaming against the vividly orange sky. The entire scene - from the mountains in the east to the fields beside us, and to the rapidly-setting sun in the west - was cast in a beautiful orange light.
As the sun sank toward the horizon, the orange turned into a brilliant red ...and within minutes had deepened into a vivid purple. It was a beautiful scene!
This is the beginning of the sunset; this is the actual color that we saw!
