Sunsets

Have you ever watched the sunset below the clouds?

I had the opportunity to when I was in Hawaii ten years ago. We stayed on Maui and one day ventured up to Haleakala. For those of you unfamiliar with Maui, Haleakala is a volcano on the island. Once we were up there we decided to stay and watch the sunset. Well, that particular day, I had decided to wear jeans and for some unknown reason had a lightweight jacket with me. Only in Hawaii do public roads go through the middle of unfenced cow fields. There would be fences around the fields, but no fence to keep the cows out of the road. How did they keep the cows from escaping out of the fence. Well where the road passed through the fence and into the fields, they had what is called cattle guards up at the entrance to the fields. Basically it is a grate that can be driven over, but cows will not cross it due to the gaps in the grate. Once we reached the crater, I got sick due to the high altitude and had to endure being mocked by my younger brother for getting sick. But that is what happens when you decide to venture ten thousand feet above sea level. (That is almost two miles above the ocean!) It never occurred to anyone that once the sun set, that it would get cold. Well, it did. The temperature dropped nearly twenty degrees in just a few minutes after the sun dropped below the clouds. Turned out that I was the only one who did not end up freezing my rear off. While we were up there we took quite a few pictures, however, this is one of my favorites. The sun was just about to drop below the clouds when this picture was snapped. I think that I will always remember that day.