The Big Sky

Last night we had these delicious crabcakes with hushpuppies and spinach at Martha's kitchen:

And while we were eating, we were treated to this spectacular display outside the window of pink cloud and ocean, just while the sun was setting - it had been cloudy and rainy most of the day, and suddenly the sky seemed to open up and everything was transformed with purples and deep pinks.

This morning, the sky looked like this at sunrise - you could tell the sun was rising, but it was back behind a veil of thick thunderclouds, which made a kind of crimson tapestry all along the horizon:

There is a ragged line of cloud out to sea over the nearby pier, and whitish sky beyond that:

The ocean is just immense here, of course - we listened to it all night, with the bedroom window open.  But the big, big sky is always changing and always new.  In our narrow little valley in the mountains, way back in Clear Creek, we sometimes forgot how big the sky can be.