Sunset as seen from the turret at The Institute 5:36PM

Those of you who have been around the blog the longest know that we have a sunset viewing wing here at The Institute. Well it’s more of a tower actually, with an amazing keep or a turret at the top surrounded by windows so you can get a 360° view of the sunsets as they’re occurring. It was built ’round’ this way because due to fluctuations in the alignment of the cosmos especially in this time continuum, our sunsets can occur at almost any compass point. Lately however they been occurring in the West. I know, strange, that.

Sunset as seen from the turret at The Institute 5:38PM

The first picture above, with all the blue in it, shows the sun dropping behind the hill and starting to spill its color all over the valley. There’s still some color left in the surrounding area, but everybody knows what ‘s coming.

The image directly above, with all the gold in it, shows the sunset upchucking all over the place. Hurling yellow and gold everywhere as sort of a parting gift, saying “Yeah, we got to go now but we’ll be back, you can count on that bucko.”

Sunset as seen from the turret at The Institute 5:40PM

This is its death knell as the Sun drops into the special tube installed there in the west to instantly transport it to the other side of the globe to start Day for those guys over there.

Sunset as seen from the turret at The Institute 5:42PM

That’s it. Six minutes after it started it’s gone. Sometimes you can even hear the lid slam shut on that tube and then it’s dark. Dark as Jane Fonda’s heart. You may experience sunsets in a different manner at your house. If so that’s cool. We’ve heard that there are parts of the country where it takes forever for the sun to set and it’s boring while it’s doing it. If you are one of those who suffer from that scenario we offer our condolences and say “Run Away, run as fast as you can.”, you needn’t live that way.