Watching the Sun Set Along the Texas Eagle Amtrak Route

For just a few minutes, after the sun has fallen below the horizon, if there are no clouds in the sky, and if there are not many hazy dust particles in the lower atmosphere, the skies display a beautiful gradient that goes from deep, dark blue to fiery orange-red at the horizon. 

Any object that is between the camera and the horizon is silhouetted sharply, the crisp black lines providing a sharp contrast with the glowing sky in the background.

Ordinary and mundane objects take on a graceful beauty for a brief few minutes. Everything is all about lines and curves highlighted by the rich and glorious color of the evening sky.

 Even a single microwave tower exhibits drama as it juts up into the sky from the blackness of the Texas dirt.

Scrub trees and brush reveal details which are normally not noticed as they break the plane of the flat terrain.

For just a few moments, the drama unfolds. Then it is gone and all is black. The wonder of it all is that you get to witness it again, when the sky is cloudless and the haze is gone, when the sun sets like a fireball at the end of another day.