Mountain Lights

Cloudy, with rain.  That was today's weather forecast.

So, when I went litter-picking early this afternoon, I took rain gear with me.

No rain.  Instead, the sun warmed its way through the clouds and turned Lower Summit Lake into a reflective mirror as I walked along the highway.

Stolen sun, I call it.  "Stolen" because it was supposed to rain. 

This evening around 9:30 the sun was punctuating the clouds in the west, and there was just something about the way it was backlighting those mountains that I liked.

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A little later, the air turned golden.  I went out, expecting a dramatic cloud scene, but the sky was clear.   No spectacular mountain scenes.  When I came back inside I noticed that golden light shining through the shamrock that sits on a window ledge.

Stolen sun, the end of a beautiful day.

And stolen sun, like stolen kisses, is much sweeter by far.