LA Sunset: Sometimes, Beauty is Right Under Our Noses

Yesterday at about 4:55pm, I looked outside my apartment's sliding door and saw the most beautiful pinks and blues in the sky at sunset. I grabbed my camera and meager little tripod and went outside and snapped a few pictures. They're a little blurry because my tripod's crap, but I didn't alter the colors at all. About 20 minutes after I took them, the sky was black.

Some of us yearn to go to places that are beautiful. Beautiful is not a word often associated with LA, but I think the sunset in these pictures is beautiful. Maybe it's a lesson to myself and all of us - we should look right under our noses for beauty, too, even in what we might think of as the most unexpected places. Maybe the bigger picture/lesson is that we shouldn't forget the places we live. For many of us, acting like a tourist in our own hometown is a great way to "get away" but not spend too much money.

So, without further ado and for a little diversion from my normal posts, please enjoy these pictures; if you click on them, you can see them bigger.