What is Love?

What is love? 

It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis


 

Hi my friends,

this week went by fast - for me. It's Friday already and weekend just around the corner. I wish you all a wonderful weekend, enjoy spring!

See you tomorrow....and, yes...thank you for the comments from yesterday!

Susanne

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Country Sunset

This is a beautiful country side sunset, seen today on our campground in Lake City, FL where we were staying yesterday and today. Pretty soon in the future I will be able to photograph and to show you sunsets only from the Gulf shores, I'm very excited about that.

We have bought today also a ATT-Aircard for our computers. Just now we don't know for sure if we like it or not, time will tell. As for now we are not so happy with the way to long connection time to the internet. Doe's any one of you knows or has some recommendations, how to use the air card right...???


Susanne and David

Looking for a Sunset

Evening atmosphere over the marsh

Marsh landscape in a warm evening light

Still a lot of activities going on at Folly beach, but no sunset here at the Atlantic shores

All these kids had a lot of fun jumping the rope

Finally I've seen the setting sun!
It was not that what I was expecting, but it was sort of nice

After waiting longtime for the "REAL" sunset (what I was used to see from Key West, where the most beautiful sunsets are in the world, folks!), the sun decided to set behind the clouds today and left behind a very nice glow over the water.

It was a pretty evening and it was a very different, new experience!

Last strolling and maybe the last sunset too

The pier by the Southernmost House is jammed with tourists every evening. All cameras are ready for this glorious sunset event.

The sun is waiting some minutes for her appearance behind the clouds...

Here she comes...

and then she sinks like a fireball into the ocean.....

And all around me, the people are clapping their hands, happy and overwhelmed to see an other grandiose spectacle from mother nature.

After to see it for 7 years almost, it's still for me too, an exciting big show.

My 465. post today - Simple and Easy

A very simple and plain sunset over Key West.
Where is here the "green flash"....?

Green flashes and green rays are rare optical phenomena that occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise, when a green spot is visible for a short period of time above the sun, or a green ray shoots up from the sunset point.

Green flashes can be observed from any altitude (even from the air). They are usually seen at an unobstructed horizon, such as over the ocean, but are possible over cloud-tops and mountain-top as well.

Read more about "Green Flashes" here

It's simply Sunset

"Sunset"

Sunset, sunset
It's sunset, it's sunset

You went and left happy
You're all alone
You turned and walked away
About this time of day
It was always sunset

Sunset
I didn't want you to see me cry
So I turned my head
To hide the tears in my eyes
I turned when evening shadows fall
That's when I miss you most of all

And oh, it's sunset
Oh, sunset



Steve Wonder

[ www.azlyrics.com ]

Evening lights at Mallory Square

People are sitting at the pier and waiting for the sunset...

while in the mean time all the sunset cruisers are leaving the harbor.

The Liberty Clipper just finished setting up the sails

for sailing into the setting sun.
Last night was not a spectacular sunset at all, like the nights before.
The sky was free of clouds and in a cold winter color of orange and yellow.

Dramatic Sunset

Another dramatic sunset over Sunset Key. A magnificent show of mother nature to enjoy every day.

Sunset Sailors - Song from the Ship

Sunset Sails

Song from the Ship - Thomas Lovell Beddoes

To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er;
The wanton water leaps in sport,
And rattles down the pebbly shore;
The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort,
And unseen Mermaids' pearly song
Comes bubbling up, the weeds among.
Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar:

To sea, to sea! the calm is o'er.
To sea, to sea! our wide-winged bark
Shall billowy cleave its sunny way,
And with its shadow, fleet and dark,
Break the caved Tritons' azure day,
Like mighty eagle soaring light
O'er antelopes on Alpine height.
The anchor heaves, the ship swings free,
The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!


More sea poems to read here

Magic Sunset

Joy of Color - Joy of Life

Just Beyond The Sunset

Just beyond the sunset
Someone waits for me
Just beyond the sunset
Lies my destiny
Where the purple mountains
Lie in deep tranquillity
There I’ll find the treasure
Of love eternally

Just beyond the sunset
Waits someone so fair
Just beyond the sunset
All alone they wait there
Their hair is golden
The colour of the sand
Their eyes sparkle in the night
Like diamonds in your hand

Just beyond the sunset
Lies a home for me
Where the world is peaceful
Like a paradise should be
Just beyond the sunset
Someday is where you’ll find me

Written - July or Aug 1966

David Harris

Gorgeous Sunset

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY

I know, not to many of you will have time today to sit on the computer and to blog. Family and friends are waiting for your excellent cooked or roasted Turkey with mash potatoes and gravy....and everything!:-)

Me and David are also invited tonight for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner by good friends of us. It will be my VERY FIRST experience of this old and great American tradition - and I'm sooo excited! :-)

I wish you all a great Thanksgiving Day!

Susanne

Hallo an alle

Heute feiert man hier in USA den "Thanksgiving Day", aehnlich zu unserem "Dank- Bet- und Busstag". Familien kommen zusammen und wenn man keine Familie hat, laedt man Freunde ein oder wird eingeladen, so wie David und Ich heute abend. Susan, eine Freundin vom Pier, hat sich maechtig in die Vorbereitungen gestuerzt und einen RIESENGROSSEN
Truthahn gekocht mit allem Drum und Dran wie Kartoffelstock und feine Bratsauce dazu, Cranberries (was sind Cranberries in Deutsch eigentlich?), nicht zu vergessen den obligaten Kuerbiskuchen und Apple-Pie.

Sie hat das ganze Haus auf Hochglanz poliert, das gute alte
Silberbesteck hervorgegrabt, die Tischtuecher gestaerkt...und so
vieles mehr.Wir bringen den guten Rose-Wein mit, dann kann nichts mehr schiefgehen und alle 12 eingeladenen Gaeste werden auf Hochstimmung kommen, da bin ich mir sicher!

Thanksgiving ist hier auch der traditionelle Beginn von Weihnachten und seinem Einkaufsrummel...In vielen Haushaltungen steht ab heute bereits ein voll geschmueckter Christbaum im Wohnzimmer!

Andere Laender, andere Sitten.
Ich bin gespannt auf heute Abend!!!!!

Evening lights at the Beach

At Sunset Time

A Down thw west a golden glow
Sinks burning in the sea,
And all the dreams of long ago
Come flooding back to me.
The past has writ a story strange
Upon my aching heart,
But time has wrought a subtle change,
My wounds have ceased ro smart.

No more the quick delight of youth,
No more the sudden pain,
I look no more for trust or truth
Where greed may compass gain.
What, was it I who bared my heart
Through unrelenting years,
And knew the sting of misery's dart,
The tang of sorrow's tears?

'Tis better now, I do not weep,
I do not laugh nor care;
My soul and spirit half asleep
Drift aimless everywhere.
We float upon a sluggish stream,
We ride no rapids mad,
While life is all a tempered dream
And every joy half sad.

Read more poems here

Day is done - gone the sun

Another wonderful day in paradise is finished and we have been left to enjoy a wonderful orange after glow.

Sunset Love

Watching the sunset together

A little romance at sunset time

Love is in the air

Kiss after sunset

EVERY SUNSET

Author: Jessica Voyles

Meeting you 

was pure destiny,

You and I 

were ment to be.

Maybe not now

but someday soon,

We'll meet not under the sun

but beneath the moon.

We'll watch the stars

'till they fade away,

but we won't fade

together we'll always stay.

This is the day 

I'm waiting for,

from that day

I'll love you more and more.

I can't wait to watch

the sun set with you,

every sunset from that day

'till the rest of our lives are through.

My Island in the Sun

Sunset over the island of Key West

He enjoys his canoe ride in the last sun beams of the day

Sitting on a dock on the bay and watching the sun melting into the ocean

Amazing Nature Spectacle

Sunsets need no descriptions, no long words and no comments.
Just sit down and ENJOY this amazing spectacle of mother nature.

Jamaica Farewell - Mustafa

This is Mustafa, our singer on the pier at Mallory Square. He sings and entertains all the tourists who are watching the sunset with his Calypso sounds. It makes you dream about island living for ever.


(You can also listen to this song on my player to the voice of Harry Belafonte - scroll down to find the player).

Harry Belafonte - Kingston Town Lyrics

Jamaica Farewell

Down the way, where the nights are gay,
and the sun shines daily on the mountain top,
I took a trip on a sailing ship,
and when I reach Jamaica I made a stop.

But I'm sad to say,
I'm on my way,
won't be back for many a day.
My heart is down,
my head is turning around,
I had to leave a little girl in Kingston Town.

Sounds of laughter everywhere,
and the dancing girls swing to and through.
I must declare my heart is there,
thou I've been from Maine to Mexico.

But I'm sad to say,
I'm on my way,
won't be back for many a day.
My heart is down,
my head is turning around,
I had to leave a little girl in Kingston Town.

At the market you can hear,
ladies cry out while on their heads they bear,
acky rice, salt, fish are nice
and the rum is fine any time a year.

But I'm sad to say,
I'm on my way,
won't be back for many a day.
My heart is down,
my head is turning around,
I had to leave a little girl in Kingston Town.

Down the way, where the nights are gay,
and the sun shines daily on the mountain top,
I took a trip on a sailing ship,
and when I reach Jamaica I made a stop.

But I'm sad to say,
I'm on my way,
won't be back for many a day.
My heart is down,
my head is turning around,
I had to leave a little girl in Kingston Town.

Sad to say,
I'm on my way,
won't be back for many a day.
My heart is down,
my head is turning around,
I had to leave a little girl in Kingston Town.



Read more Harry Belafonte Lyrics here

You have to see this!

That was yesterday evening - a breathtaking show of our setting sun!

Is this the Sun?

Is this our sun - or is this an other planet? Mars maybe or Saturn...?
I can assure you, it IS the setting sun in a red sky over Key West, out in the Gulf, over there by the mangroves!

Just another Sunset in Paradise

It's just another simple and wonderful sunset - seen at Mallory Square, where I'm selling my photography to tourists from all over the world. They come every evening down to the pier to see and to celebrate this spectacular sensation. This is the only place I know of where you can combine your work with a lot of fun.