Hi Everyone!!!
Well, its only a few days before election day, and I’m hoping to {insert Name of Diety of Choice} that my Florida absentee ballot hasnt been shredded or counted thrice by now. 
Anyway, I was lucky enough to have my camera when these lovely events were happening:
Sunrise in Denver, Colorado last Sunday morning:
And Sunset in Sarasota, Florida a few weeks ago:
These shots have not been tweaked or digitally jazzed in any way.
Isn’t life beautiful!!!
DAZED
Very pretty. And it will still happen, regardless of the election outcome.
As a humble Brit I can only interperet this photo as a Burning Bush…of course this is a totally non political comment unless of course you have a Boiling Blair somewhere in your camera? 
Thanks for dazzling us, Dazed! Those were truly some magnificent shots.
One can only hope. . .
Will O’Ban
Yes, it is And so were your pictures…thank you for sharing
Wow, great pix, Kevin!!
Great sunsets. We don’t have much in the way of sunsets where I am now (and can’t see the horizon, either, from my house), but when I lived in Marina, near the ocean, they were spectacular. I do miss them.
Still, I’ll contribute some mandevilla blossoms up on top of our patio cover with the sun almost behind them, from a couple of days ago.
For a while, anyway.
my daughters Grandma is in Sarasota, she has been there lots of times and feels a real connection…election aside, I will show her the photo and she will love it! The thing she always loves about Sarasota is that she saw Manatees (?) there. Can you post a photo of one for her? I think she wants to ‘adopt’ one, but we already adopted a dolphin and a donkey!!!
P.S. Sorry, explanation required, my ex husbands mother(her Grandma)…she visits Sarasota with him, I’ve never been!
By request . . . manatees:
This is the Gulfport Beach, where manatees swim:
This is what Gulfport looks like, view across the street from the beach where manatees swim:
And, best of all, a manatee-cam and fun Florida wildlife info from Homosassa Springs: www.manateecam.com
Sunset on Sanibel Island, three weekes before Charley.
Manatees swimming in the warm water from a power plant near Tampa
Actually, if one candidate in particular wins, we will have even MORE colorful sunsets. This unfortunately is NOT a good thing, since many vivid sunsets are caused by excessive particulat matter in the atmosphere: aka air pollution. Check the environmental records of both men and vote accordingly…
You’re right Paul, and I’m planning to vote accordingly…but I hope that in the long run, regardless of the next 4 years, we’ll behave more wisely.
Behave more “Wisley”? I’ll bet Dale would agree
Nice photos, everyone.
Actually, by posting some nice sunset photos, I was kinda saying hey everyone, lets get through election day and still remember to look at the sunsets and smell the flowers (funny and cool that a flower photo was shared!!!) and lets all keep some perspective.
anyone else have some nice nature-ey photos?
This isn’t really a sunsetty type picture, but it is natureish Here’s our backyard this past winter when we got one of the bigger snow storms
One of the bigger snow storms??? But you can still see the house and trees. 
Oh, I get it . . . this shot must have been taken after you shoveled out. 
Will O’Ban (From the land of the really deep snow)
The stuff is really deep where you are alright, but I don’t think it’s the snow.
Thankyou so much for the photos,
Message from my daughter;
hiya thankyou for the photos ive been to florida many times before i really liked the pictures of the manatees swimming in the wild , ive been to the bay
where the picture was taken . my grandma and aunty live in tampa and sarasota
thanks for the pictures hattie x
Hi,
I now have had that song Sunrise Sunset going through my head for almost 2 days now.I even tried to work it out on the whistle,unfortunately I can only rememeber the the first 2 words and the first 4 notes, Sunrise Sunset over and over and over and over and over…