Originally Posted by
Kathianne
Funny you said that, I was going to ask SL if it was sunrise or sunset. From my pics in Cottonwood, I often can't tell. Each is spectacular when the sky is right.
In the morning, it looks like the sun is bursting with pink, orange, and purple. Comes over the northwestern mountains. Sunset turns it's sinking shadows on emphasizing the White Mountains, brings out the reds, and finally says goodnight behind the Black Mountains separating our Verde Valley from Prescott Valley.
This is sunrise for sure. It can be determined by the brightness of the Sun in sunrise and shifting the spectrum to the red color in sunset.
Indifferent alike to praise or blame
Give heed, O Muse, but to the voice Divine
Fearing not injury, nor seeking fame,
Nor casting pearls to swine.
(A.Pushkin)