Sunsets

There's something mesmerising about when the sun is setting and the trees become silhouettes, the depth of their colour almost pressing against the subtly changing sky colour

 

Caroni. By Edward Montserin 2011.

Sunsets in Trinidad are phenomenal. In rainy season the variety of cloud cover leads to a range of tumultuous colour changes, sometimes quite dramatic with purples colliding with fiery oranges and more subtle peach hues.  Then in the dry season, on those days when you wonder if you'll ever see rain again as dust from the parched ground catches in your throat...you see a purer, more uniform orange, then peach, then a twilight lilac.

Sometime I forget to look outside at dusk, but any time I catch a glimpse, a burst of euphoria gets caught in the corner of my lungs as I exhale in immense gratitude at living somewhere so constantly and inspiringly beautiful.