April 10, 2025

One of our favorite end-of-the-day activities is to watch the sunset in our anchorage in Man of War Harbor. We’ve been watching sunsets for years, and it never gets boring. Each one is unique and beautiful.

We often try to catch the elusive “green flash.” We see them occasionally out here in the harbor when the conditions are just right. The green flash is a brief, momentary flash seen at the very top of the sun as it sets or rises, caused by atmospheric refraction where light bends as it passes through different layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. If you blink, you miss it!

Green Flash: February 14, 2025

Here are a few sunset photos that Tim took recently from our boat. There are a lot of sunset cruises for the tourists, and it’s nice when one of the clipper ships passes in front of the sun.

An unfortunate sailboat that ran aground on Frankfort Bank

Mary Oliver is one of my favorite poets, and she wrote this about the sun…

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful
than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon
and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone–
and how it slides again
out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower
streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance–
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love–
do you think there is anywhere, in any
language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure
that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you
as you stand there,
empty-handed–
or have you too
turned from this world–
or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?