First Sunset of the Year:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[Moondog]

1. Lovely image.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Thank you, my dear Moondog!

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Wonderful Panoramic.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I appreciate your comments, my dear Baitball Blogger...

[Arctic Dave]

5. Thank you my dear Peggy.

I have to wait another month and a half to see a sunrise.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I'm sorry, my dear Arctic Dave!

That would really be hard for me. I hope that you're coping well...

This is a sunset, but it could just as easily be a sunrise.......in a different place!

[Arctic Dave]

7. I have SAD light to help me in the mean time.

This will be my twentieth winter in the Arctic and I get to go home every couple of weeks and see the sun, if I'm lucky.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. I'm glad you get to do that now and then! I would just die without the sun...

[Arctic Dave]

13. It takes a little time to get used to.

I've lived up here long enough that it doesn't bother me too much but coming from SoCal as kid it was alittle weird.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. nicely done, Peg!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Aw, thank you, my dear Tuesday Afternoon...

You should have seen me working to get to the best vantage before the light went out!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. it was worth the effort and yes I know the predicaments I have gotten myself into trying to get the

right angle, best light, etc. for a shot

[WCGreen]

11. Beautiful, Peg

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Thanks, Chris...

I had fun taking it!

[lunatica]

12. I LOVE the colors!

Cool and warm colors work so well together sometimes! Thank you!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Thank you, my dear lunatica!

They do, don't they? And that's just what there was tonight!

[liberaltrucker]

15. Absolutely beautiful, Peggy!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!



8" of snow here in western PA.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Thank you, my dear liberaltrucker!

Happy New Year to you too!

Brrrrr......8"? Yikes.

[liberaltrucker]

19. Going down to 11F tonight

High tomorrow 23F. Fucking brrrrr!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Damn, that is too cold! Stay safe and warm, you hear?

too!

[liberaltrucker]

21. Not a problem

Preparing for winter is a no-brainer here. We'll be fine.

Just don't visit the Great Lakes region during winter.
A SoCal gal wouldn't survive.

[Aristus]

22. Beautiful.

Thanks, CalPeg!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. Thank you, my dear Aristus...

My pleasure!

[Agschmid]

23. Very pretty, thanks for sharing! n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Thank you, my dear Agschmid! I love to share. n/t

[Lady Freedom Returns]

26. Lovely!

Thanks for sharing.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. Thank you, my dear Lady Freedom Returns!

I love to share my pictures!

[applegrove]

28. You have a panoramic lens. Cool.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. Actually, my dear applegrove, it isn't a panoramic lens...

I cropped the original file.

Good ol' Photoshop.

I used my regular zoom lens, which is 35 to 250mm, I think.

[applegrove]

30. Great effect.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. Thanks!

I like to use Photoshop to crop this sort of horizontal picture. It really makes the picture pop out.

[denbot]

32. Waaah.. I just spent the last 2 hours driving around Atlanta look for a place to shutdown.

I miss sunsets over the ocean, almost as much as I miss home and family. Tonight I had to give up finding a place to park with amenities (truck stop), and will spend the night in a Walmart parking lot. The view from the El Porto beach lot is much better.

Thank you for giving me a glimpse of home.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

33. Oh, my dear denbot...

I'm so sorry you're so far from home tonight, sweetie...

Not a good way to start the New Year...



I'm really glad I was able to give you a peek of home...

Safe travels!