{"id":319,"date":"2008-05-30T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T06:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:02:06","slug":"skywatch-friday-montana-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/05\/skywatch-friday-montana-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Sunset Alpinglow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday evening with thunderstorms forecast &#8211; 9:00 p.m. U.S. Mountain Daylight Time (sunset is close to 9:30 now)&#8230;the sky to the east looked interesting, the wind was kicking up and sounding fabulous in the pines.  I called to Karl, grabbed my camera (and pepper spray!) and off I went.  Karl did not follow &#8211; he hates thunder and seems to have a sixth sense about it -&#8230;I whistled and called and watched him head from the driveway back to the house&#8230;Rats!! &#8211; I hate to walk without him &#8211; it is our thing!!  But the sky called and so I went&#8230;. but halfway along as I was looking at the vista which was beautiful beyond words, my good dog appeared &#8211; panting, wagging tail &#8211; &#8230;. I love the following photos, but more than those, I love that my dear dog put aside his fear and followed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, there was no thunder that night &#8211; and more important, no lightning &#8230;often the clouds pile up and it rains or snows in the mountains but not in the valley.  We never even heard rumblings in the night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/SunsetMountainsClouds500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can just barely see above what you can see below with more intensity&#8230;the setting sun, once again casting the tops of the trees in gold, bronze, deep red &#8211; the colors of Fall in the height of Spring.  I stood &#8211; in awe &#8211; with my mouth open in amazement at the color feast spread out before me.  I have seen the setting sun turn the tree tops in my woods gold but I had never seen the array of colors that I did this evening.  I took a lot of photos and as I took each I knew that there was no way I was capturing the feast of color spread out at the foot of the mountains.  With each photo, I hoped I could capture what I saw &#8211; from where I stood there was a wide expanse of glowing trees, snow covered mountains and building thunderheads &#8211; magnificent!  For a long while I just stood and watched the color and the light.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/SunsetMountainGlo375500.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" height=\"500\" style=\"width: 375px; height: 500px\" title=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/SunsetMountainGlo500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/SunsetMountainGloZoom500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And below&#8230;looking the opposite direction &#8211; West &#8211; as we headed for the house&#8230;the sunset through the trees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/SunsetWoods500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/SunsetWoodsB500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Sunset Sky Watch Montana\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My property sits in the woods on a plateau of foothills before the land gives way to the Swan Range &#8211; Continentel Divide &#8211; to the east and the floor of the Flathead Valley to the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday evening with thunderstorms forecast &#8211; 9:00 p.m. U.S. Mountain Daylight Time (sunset is close to 9:30 now)&#8230;the sky to the east looked interesting, the wind was kicking up and sounding fabulous in the pines. I called to Karl, grabbed my camera (and pepper spray!) and off I went. Karl did not follow &#8211; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana","category-pets","category-photos","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22091,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/22091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}