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yes I do. Yesterday I was heading downtown delivering some signs...and of course it was still dark at 6:45am. I was sitting in traffic jammin to tunes...and stuck in a tunnel. When I finally got OUT of the tunnel......it was daylight. HELLOOO WORLD!!!!!
yeah then get this............
Later on in the day ...... my last stop....I was picking up my MDO....drivin along and turned the bend and Wah Lah! the most beautiful sunset was smack dab in front of me mixed in with a dab of dusk.
Is it just me....or do you get off on weirdness like that? Or is it just my winning personality that makes these things so special? I mean really.....this is some cool stuff.
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You are a shining star! Hey, I snapped two sunsets last week that were just breathtaking! I was driving my son home from the football game when I saw this beautiful sunset at the very end of the street when the rest of the sky was gray. Like driving into the sunset. He thinks I am crazy to get out of the car and catch that. Now I will have to get my scanner hooked up.
-------------------- Deb Fowler
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The next time I run across something too beautiful for words, something that gives me a catch in the heart, I want to be in your company Cheryl !
I carry a camera even in my evening bag. Beauty sneaks up on us when we least expect it and in the most unusual and unexpected forms. We visual sort have no choice but be awed., and I am proud to be wired that way. I delight just as easily in things too ugly for words. They can also be visually stunning.
I have had a number of close calls to wreck my vehicle over studying signs, but also I have had to coast and stop, or stop and back up, turn around, or drive down strange neighborhoods to chase a rainbow or a setting sun. It’s a joy to drink in the breathtaking beauty we get to see all around us, and it’s one of the things being alive offers for free. I am gratefully rarely taking it for granted.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
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That section you mention is called the "Alpenglow" It's not weird, it's one of the beauties of the day. I also enjoy to watch that big momasota slowly sink out of sight.
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Hey a great big thanks to all of you who also see the beauty in everyday 'little' things. From our driveway you can see Mount Rainier...and this morning it was absolutely gorgeous with the snow on top.....and the sunrise making it look like a soft fire was aglow around it. Aint nature wonderul!
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Sunsets can definately leave an impression. I remember about six years ago, my late wife and I were fishing at Reelfoot Lake. She was an avid fisherman and one you couldn't get off the lake easily. This lake is loaded with Cypress trees and has lots of stumps in it, not a good one to be out on at dark. Anyway the sun started to set so we headed back to the boat ramp. It was early September, the time of year around here when you get all those wild colors like the bright oranges , magentas and purples. The sunset was abosolutely stunning with the Cypress trees forming the background. As we eased along we came up on a Heron perced on a stump. One of those big sucker that stands about four feet tall. Now normally these things won't let you get within a hundred yards of them before they start squaking and take flight. For some reason this one just sayed put. The closer we got the larger his silhoette got against the sun. Absolutely AWESOME!!! When we neared the boat ramp we came across another boat, the guy in it, almost out of breath, said,"My Gawd,... did ya'll see that!!!!!" Of course we neglected to bring the camera along but that's one image that's firmly planted in my head
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
Been there 6 times. Pictures don't do it justice, I have not words to describe it.
Not that size matters that much - there are other images that stay with me, but the whole place blows me away. I'd live there if I could.
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Never been there Mikey.....but Crater lake is something to see too....along with a sunrise over the badlands! WOW pink...orange...yellow...... and the stars at night driving from Reno to Lake Tahoe....(they are HUGE!!!!!!!) and those little bug lights in Minnesota...yeah those are cool too.
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WAtching the top of Mt Saint Helens blow up in 1980 is right up there with Grand CAnyon, Badlands ad Crater lake (seen them all).. From our back yard we can see the southen end of the Adirondack Mountains. It is the largest state park in the USA 3,ooo,ooo sq acres. This year the colors are spectacular (warm days and cold nights)
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I'm glad to find that I'm not the only one that carries a camera and stops to shoot some beautiful momentss almost daily. I regularly pull over and get out and walk out on the headlands to watch the sun changing shapes and glowing orange as it appears to sing into the boiling sea. Mountain panoramas of nothing but redwood covered landscape and blue sky and eagles. Trollers and tug boats. Sea lions and whales. looking down the mountain on a clear morning and seeing that small fluffy patch of fog over the river. My daughters smile.
-------------------- The SignShop Mendocino, California
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6842 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Rick...your daughters smile...but they will also remember. My Dad did the same thing. We used to go to Minnesota every summer for vacation. We would always get up to watch the sunrise in the badlands!. We would also pull over for every beautiful waterfall, mountain or scenic view that was simply breath taking. My Dad taught us to appreciate nature. And for that I will always smile and remember. Everyday there is a scene to take your breath away. You just have to remember to open your eyes to them.
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