Yet more amazing sunsets

Painted Sky

This year seems to have been a really special one for sunsets at the woods. Following on from the unreal skies I posted a short while ago, we had another stunning and unexpected sunset just before Christmas.

Not a promising start

I had actually just gone to the woods to feed the birds, and only took my little camera with me. As I hung up the last of the feeders, I thought that the light was looking quite good, so I decided to go for a little walk. The sunset was not that promising, and a bank of cloud was coming over, but I decided to wait a few minutes longer. And then the sky started to turn pink and orange.

Starting to go pink

More and more colour

The colour started to develop until the whole sky was scarlet. I headed down to the ponds to try and catch some reflections in the surface of the water. I was rewarded with some great colour and photos.

Red sky

Reflections

The colour started to turn from orange/red to magenta, pink and purple as I walked round the bottom of Betty’s Wood and up through the meadows back towards the main woods. Even as I arrived at the main clearing, there was still some pink in the sky, and I caught the last rays of the sun before heading home.

Getting darker

Pink and purple

Sun setting

The colours were totally unreal – as if a child had some pots of bright-coloured paints and mixed them all up and threw them across the sky. Winter is a really special time of year for sunsets. What has been most interesting this year is that the best colour has been in the north-east, and not in the south-west where the sun is actually setting.

I hope you are not bored of seeing pictures of winter sunsets – I never tire of their beauty.