Washington Waterfront Sunsets: July 12th through July 14th | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Hunter S. Thompson's oft quoted phrase, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro," was never more apparent than in the recent weeks of my professional life, before the weekend of July 12th through July 14, 2013. As some of you know, I have two professional lives: one in government / politics, and another in cyber tech, publishing and marketing. Only one of those professional lives allow me any measure of true control - oddly, it is the cyber tech, publishing and ultimately marketing.

    In that field, I have had the distinct pleasure of heading, and employing a team of dedicated, and relatively goofy tech guys that have created Symbiotic Publisher, a CMS (Content Management System) that may well be one of the most efficient anywhere, with Beaufort County NOW as our prototype. BCN is one of the top news and information cyber sites in northeastern North Carolina, with our CMS unparalleled, and with the quality of our content, which is ... well ... simply, very smart, and very well read by a growing list of our patrons. My government / politics life is not so fortunate, as I am often at the mercy of the whim of lesser mortals, and we shall just have to leave it at that.

    When most things are amiss in the unnatural world, it is always with the Lord's blessing when there is so much innate beauty in the natural world, where all one has to do is shut the door on one's distasteful elements of one's existence, and venture outdoors and embrace the glorious beauty of God's natural world - in this case the incomparable sunsets of Washington, North Carolina on that weekend between Friday, July, 12th and Sunday, July 14, 2013.
In the wake of the dissipated tropical storm Chantal and the various competing weather fronts, the folks walking and just enjoying the waterfront parkway along Washington's downtown were treated to three successive nights of unique and often spectacular sunsets over that weekend. I recorded all of them, and I begin with this image from Friday night: Above and below.     photos by Stan Deatherage    Click the image to expand to as much as 1000 pixels wide.

    My wife and I often take the short ride to the Washington waterfront to take exercise along the 1.5 mile concrete walk and board walk from Gladden Street to McNair Street and then back to the point of beginning. I often bring my SLR on these short walks just in case there exists the propensity for brilliant colors, and interesting textural depth in these outstanding sunsets.
It was a dark evening - very cloudy, sun obscured, still raining at times, but still quite darkly colorful when the sun shone outward through the bank of great billowing clouds: Above and below.     photos by Stan Deatherage    Click the image to expand to as much as 1000 pixels wide.

    The succeeding evening, Saturday, July 13th, was cloudy, still loaded with rain from the tropics, but I was compelled to shoot what I could, which I did as I made the 1.5 loop my exercise for the evening.
The clouds this evening were thick, moving, and full of rain and wind, which was the case for much of this Saturday: Above and below.     photos by Stan Deatherage    Click the image to expand to as much as 1000 pixels wide.

The waning glare of a descending sun as it shone in what openings were availed to it, by the constantly moving banks of clouds, was most prevalent: Above and below.     photos by Stan Deatherage    Click the image to expand to as much as 1000 pixels wide.

    That Saturday evening, while we were down along the waterfront for our walk, we dodged a 6 minute downpour, finding cover under the big gazebo in Festival Park.
Looking south toward the historic Castle Island as the fast moving clouds thicken: Above. And then the promised downpour comes, and we then congregate under the gazebo and waited for the short rain to break: Below.     photos by Stan Deatherage    Click the image to expand to as much as 1000 pixels wide.


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( August 10th, 2013 @ 7:01 am )
 
But you are now, and that is all that matters ... Cristy.
( August 9th, 2013 @ 7:01 pm )
 
Absolutely beautiful. Wish I could have witnessed it myself.
( July 26th, 2013 @ 3:25 pm )
 
But I was with you all the while.
( July 26th, 2013 @ 3:20 pm )
 
Wow, sorry I missed that third night. The pictures say it all! Enjoyed editing this for you, sorry if I overlooked something. Always looking forward to our next walk.



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