Saturday, June 25, 2011

a sparrow in the bushes


Edith Piaf must be hiding somewhere around here.  She of La Vie en rose fame.


For the past three nights, I have been treated to one of those mysterious light tricks just before the sun sets. 


My garden walls and many of the flowers usually fall safely in the orange range of the color wheel.  But each evening around 8, something unusual happens.  The walls,  The flowers.  The trees.  The air itself.  All turn pink.


And not one of your lame pink lady, pink Cadillac pinks.  This pink is ethereal, but it is strong enough to seep into everything in the back yard.  As if a Ginger Rogers negligee’s soul had escaped into the ether.


I notice it most in my little kingdom because of its enclosed space.  Where pink calls unto pink.


But a walk around the laguna last night disclosed that the pink world at dusk is a universal phenomenon.  If Melaque were the universe. 


I suspect it is nothing more than a reflection of the sunset.  That is what my scientist friends would say.  Mere light refraction.  Nothing to get excited about.


But I am not a scientist.  And though also not a poet, I fall closer to that edge of this division of world views.


All I know is that it is beautiful.  And maybe, just maybe, this is one of the gifts that comes from our tropical heat.


Pink clouds and dreams that The Little Sparrow may have had it just right:

Give your heart and soul to me
And life will always be
La vie en rose.


Note: If you would like to hear a bit of Edith in her prime, you can find her here.

16 comments:

Mcotton said...

What an inviting garden.  The hammock is calling for someone to come and enjoy a seista, or read a book.

Felipe Zapata said...

Pink or not, this phenomenon is called a Golden Evening. It is nice.

Jennyadams44 said...

Oh Steve - the bottom photo looks like an impressionist's painting - so lovely.

Steve Cotton said...

If it were not for the mosquitoes, I could enjoy a siesta in the hammock.  But it certainly gets a lot of reading time.

Steve Cotton said...

I am accustomed to the golden effect.  Melaque has an almost unique canary yellow at times of the year.  But the pink was new to me.

Steve Cotton said...

Thanks.  I thought the sme thing when I transferred it to the computer.  It even felt that way when I snapped the shot.  Almost as if I was rolling in Monet.

Babsofsanmiguel said...

Beautiful - I found the sunsets in Melaque and other places along the Pacific to always be breath taking.  This one is lovely also and truly turns the landscape into a wonderland.

Steve Cotton said...

The sunsets here are hard to beat.  But I really like the way the light plays in the eastern sky as the sun is setting in the west.  this ids one of those reverse direction sunsets.

Nwexican said...

Beautiful. Thank you.

Steve Cotton said...

You are most welcome. The evenings are beautiful here.

tancho said...

Nice Sunsets, One of the things that make stopping and enjoying them spiritual in the big scheme of things...
Now, if you could only solve the mosquito,alligator and oven temperatures, life would be sublime.....you can't tell people that it's a dry heat either.

Steve Cotton said...

The beauty of light outweighs many other factors.

Ablanc61 said...

One of those nice sunset from Barra winter 2010

Andre

Ablanc61 said...

Nice garden Steve

Steve Cotton said...

I just wish the ants wiould leave it alone.

Steve Cotton said...

Nice shot.  This is one of my favorites from Melaque.  December 2009.  http://steveinmexico.blogspot.com/2009/12/sunset-boulevard.html