Winter Sunset

Going to the seashore has become a regualr feature of my visits home - though the sea shore is some distance off from where I live. The coast line is quite long, sand for some distance, easily climbable rock for some distance, beach sand again, rock again etc. Some day I am going to keep on trekking along the coast to see how far I can go. Too bad I did'nt grow up here, in my hometown. This time around I found a fishing hamlet of sorts tucked away not too far from the main beach but completely hidden away by a thickish woods and a the rising topography. They have a nice private beach for themselves where they play cricket and volley ball quite undisturbed by townsfolk.

Watching the clear winter sunsets this time was a queer sort of experience. It felt so unreal for some unknown reason. Ofcourse, watching a sunset is a not an everyday experience for an IT professional - but it was'nt just that. Perhaps it was the one-dimensional nature of it that was so un-settling. There was not a speck of cloud, it was difficult to judge distance, the whole sky was like big blue flat canvas. And on it the sun, a proper circle, not a sphere, looking as if a kid had cut it out of an orange cardboard and pasted it up there. Not at like the diffuse sun we see during the day or during a cloudy sunset. And ofcourse the stillness of it all, not just temporal but spatial, if you know what I mean :-). There was no change to the picture in time, though of course the sun finally did set, but there was no change to the picture from here to there, the same huge, wide, flat light-blue sky with an orange hole in it...