A few nights ago I had the chance to capture one of God’s incredible sunsets that we are blessed with out here in Juniper Canyon.
We have a very artistic and creative God full of beauty and grace, as He paints the sky with…
Ever changing colors of golden orange, rusty reds, majestic purples, shades of blue and glimmering gold.
And with a stroke of His hand…
He creates a burnished beauty in the luminous evening sky above.
And in the blink of an eye He changes it with magical colors of pinks and blues adding ethereal light.
Enchanted inspiration stirs my creative spirit…
As I stand in awe on a warm summer night.
Beauty that can only come from “Heaven” above:)
As the sky was on fire…
Ever Changing…
Moments of wonder and divine creativity….times in our lives when we can’t help but stop and take notice of the beauty around us that God has masterfully brushed into our lives. Watching a gorgeous sunset with magical light and color that fills your soul with wonder…as we create our own moments to remember.
I love summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the canyon, while yet coloring the western sky.
The moon was visible for this shot, a pale white globe, while the sun slowly sets on another incredible summer night in Juniper Canyon.
If you look around you…you will see the creative gifts of God…the artistic beauty of His love for us is everywhere:)
Happy Sunday!
Hot Rod Cowgirl 
Feb 08, 2015 @ 04:16:34
Absolutely awesome paintings by the Master as He uses the sky as His canvas. You captured this moving scene so very well. I, too, am in awe of the art above us. Every day presents a new image to marvel at. Thanks for sharing.
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Feb 08, 2015 @ 15:49:21
Thank you, it was and is always an enjoyable treat to me when I can run outside and capture God’s artistic sky art:) I also love it when I can capture His world…He was a true master in creating so many beautiful places! I love the mountains and I love the ocean…we were at the ocean for several days recently and I often stood quietly watching the incredible waves and I thought how can people not believe in God…His timing with the tides and His incredible waters brought me such peace:) I love capturing landscapes and wide open skies:)
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Jan 08, 2014 @ 17:10:18
You have it exactly right. God is the ultimate master painter/creator.
Nature is our blessing. Thanks for the beautiful reminder.
KC
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Jan 08, 2014 @ 20:06:10
Thank you for stopping in at my blog:) I feel blessed to live in His beautiful world and to see His majesty in all of creation:)
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Sep 12, 2012 @ 22:17:05
Beautiful is the word! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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Sep 12, 2012 @ 23:20:24
Thank you much:) I am glad that you liked it:)
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Sep 12, 2012 @ 14:54:43
Thank you for following catnip! Not sure how you found me but I am glad you did because it led me to you. This post is awesome! I remember Easter morning of this year my husband and I were sitting on the porch waiting for sunrise. It was one of the most beautiful and unusual ones I had ever witnessed. It looked as though God dipped his fingers in Christ’s blood and stroked the sky with his Heavenly paintbrush.
Just reblogged this on catnip. Following you, too:>)
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Sep 12, 2012 @ 23:30:28
Hey thank you so much….I think I found you through “Cat From Hell” blog…not sure. I have an amazing kitty Minnie Mouse who is almost 18 years old…my constant shadow…my heart and God’s Kitty Angel:) It is nice to meet you and Min loves catnip:) I love your sentence “It looked as though God dipped his fingers in Christ’s blood and stroked the sky with his Heavenly paintbrush.” I love looking for Him in all that I see with my camera and my eye…He made everything I see…and seriously the weather and sky has become more vivid and different…so I am always outside looking for the perfect shot and the awesome light and colors…thank you for reblogging the blog post:) Awesome gf…sending you big hugs:) Have a wonderful tomorrow:)
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Aug 26, 2012 @ 18:08:42
I love a great sunset, too. Sunrises, perhaps are even better 🙂
(some of my most recent shots are at http://yakkergirl.wordpress.com)
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Aug 26, 2012 @ 21:42:59
I will go check out your site:) Thank you much:)
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Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:59:06
Thanks, glad I found yours. I don’t remember how I did, but I’m glad 🙂
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Aug 27, 2012 @ 21:55:08
Thank you much:) I’m glad you found it too:)
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Aug 23, 2012 @ 22:01:18
re-blogged on Donkey Whisperer Farm blog. Love this post, thanks for sharing.
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Aug 23, 2012 @ 22:58:54
Thank you much for re-blogging Sky Paintings:) Have a blessed night and tomorrow too:)
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Aug 23, 2012 @ 22:59:51
🙂 Hugs:)
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Aug 17, 2012 @ 03:47:11
Your photos are brimming with beauty my friend, the way you describe it as sky’s painting is perfect, artistic and creative 😀
Thank you for sharing your skill 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
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Aug 17, 2012 @ 17:34:09
Thank you so much:) I appreciate your kind words…and I love taking photos of life and landscapes…love how light can change the colors so much:) I love your recipes and yummmm is all I can say every time I read your new recipe posts…makes my tummy hungry:) Have a super duper wekend:)
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Aug 17, 2012 @ 00:13:51
These colours are so cool!!! We don’t usually get the clouds turn out this color, only usually before and after particular weather really, mum once got a shot of crimson colored clouds at some hidiouse hour of the morning, it was beautiful!!! I think I have the photo of it on my sunset and sunrises page if you wanted to have a look?! I love your blog and horses!!!! 😀
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Aug 17, 2012 @ 17:31:24
Thank you much:) I will go take a look at your Mom’s photo….I love your blog too as it is interesting to hear about your life and see NZ through your eyes:) Happy Friday night here….I bet it is Saturday night in NZ???? Not sure.
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Aug 17, 2012 @ 17:48:34
Thank you!! Haha yes it will be Saturday night here in about 8 hours, it’s currently 12:45 here – lunch time 🙂 hope you have a great day… Or whats left of your Friday until Saturday 😉 lol
Renee 🙂
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Aug 17, 2012 @ 21:57:46
🙂
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Aug 16, 2012 @ 08:42:14
I’m also fascinated by dramatic clouds!
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Aug 16, 2012 @ 08:47:11
I love watching clouds change and form…the colors and light that they have:)
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Aug 16, 2012 @ 05:01:22
Wowowwow! Beautiful pictures…god truly is great!
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Aug 16, 2012 @ 07:55:45
Thank you much:) Yes He is our awesome God:)
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Aug 14, 2012 @ 09:04:00
These are beautiful. There’s nothing like a beautiful sunrise or sunset.
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Aug 14, 2012 @ 16:08:38
Thank you so much…I love watching the sun come up or go down….special light and awesome colors:)
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Aug 13, 2012 @ 09:36:22
I am delighted to nominate you for the Kreativ Blogger Award. Please see my latest post for details. I know I am not the only one that feels that you and your blog enrich and inspire us all!
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Aug 13, 2012 @ 17:07:35
Thank you so much for this award and also for your kind words:)
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Aug 13, 2012 @ 17:55:14
It is truly my pleasure. I always look forward to and enjoy your posts so much:)
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Aug 13, 2012 @ 19:20:11
🙂 I feel the same about your blog posts! I love the desert…it is magical, incredibly beautiful and oh the landscapes are amazing:) I loved the light of the desert and discovering what most people do not know….the desert is not flat, but full of glory…mountains and beauty!!! Nevada is an incredible state…and the high desert there is so worth it. One of the best times I had gathering cattle in the desert was at the base of the Steens in Oregon…you do not see the many hills you go up and down when you look out across the landscape when you drive through the desert but they are there…I love the feeling it makes in my heart:) Wyoming was the same…we had a high desert outside of Pinedale where we first turned cattle out on in the spring…it too was incredible:)
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Aug 13, 2012 @ 19:32:46
I’ve never seen the high desert in Oregon but I’ve heard that it is as beautiful or more than Nevada. I didn’t know you had a Wyoming connection. Did you live there for a while? Your life is quite fascinating, so rich in experience and tradition.
I know exactly what you mean about the difference between perception and reality wen it comes to landscape: looking at the land vs. actually traveling over it. I’m amazed at how many people look at me strangely when I talk about how much I love the high desert. They perceive it as very one dimensional. But most of them have never been blessed to actually experience it. Yet.:)
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Aug 14, 2012 @ 16:28:29
Yes the high desert around Central Oregon is pretty as is the one around Jordan Valley and more the southeast part of Oregon…the Owyhee Desert is amazing as is Owyhee Damn…we have boated on it….it is 50 plus miles long and you often feel that you are in the Grand Canyon…my husband grew up in Vale Oregon which is on the edge of the Owyhee Desert….he spent many years out there and speaks of it often. I was impressed with it in just the few times I have traveled over it with him.
We lived in Wyoming for a few years managing a large cattle ranch….it was 110 miles long. One the sough end of it you had the high desert between Pinedale and Rock Springs and on the high end of it you were often up behind Yellowstone at 9500′. Incredible country…beautiful isolated and took my breath away no matter where we went. We lived at 7500′ elevation and my view was the Wind Rivers and Gannet Peak which was the highest peak in WY. at 14,000′. The south end acreage in the high desert was close to South Pass…when we rode out there gathering cattle etc. you did not see power poles or any sign that it was still not 1850…I would imagine what the early settlers thought once they made it over South Pass only to see the vast stretch of desert a head of them and the Wyoming Mountain Range before them. I loved that time seemed to stand still out there:)
I have not gotten to see the Nevada desert as much as you have but the little I did see I thought it was amazing. The desert speaks to your heart and it is magical with the various light and landscapes:) The desert or isolated places are spiritual to me as they are so beautiful…I love seeing God’s touch and His presence in landscapes:)
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Aug 14, 2012 @ 16:58:57
I have traveled in the west but not as much as you. I am however touched much in the same way as you by the profundity of the beauty of God’s Kingdom and the desert is such a sovereign space in a world where man has usruped almost every inch.
My husband’s family also lives in Oregon but closer to the coast. Next time we vist I must see if wee can’t detour into some of the areas that you love:)
I could listen to your stories all day. I love that you have the continuity of heritage, experience and tradition in the west. My own relationship with the west is much briefer. I came here as a young woman, the only member of my family to leave New England. However, the west is my home now and I do so love it:)
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Aug 14, 2012 @ 17:12:30
The Oregon coast is also beautiful…the ocean entertains me for hours just watching it:) Again it can quiet my spirit and I sit in awe of how God makes it all work:) You truly do have a Westerns heart and spirit:) I would like to someday tour the East coast…but this side of the Rockies are my home:)
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Aug 14, 2012 @ 17:45:53
The Maine coast where I grew up is also beautiful. When I was a child my parents built a cottage on the beach and that is where we spent our summers. At that time, southern Maine was lightly populated. So spending my summers in solitude at the beach is what gave birth to my love of nature. That my grandparents who owned property and loved nature.
Maine has changed a great deal. Southern Maine is densely populated and it is difficult to find solitude there now. It is still very beautiful though.
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Aug 15, 2012 @ 12:30:40
Oh how fun to spend summers on the ocean:) I would have loved that…yes the solitude gets you in tune with nature and the beautiful surrounding. I laugh these days that so many children do not know how to entertain themselves. Living out in the country all my life has taught me how to be alone and how to entertain myself. I have friends that are amazed that I do not get bored out here…I admit I will feel housebound at times in the winters…but not enough to not love living here. It is good you have the memories of Maine before it became populated….I know you must have some truly wonderful memories of growing up there and the summers on the ocean:)
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Aug 12, 2012 @ 23:26:07
These are absolutely amazing… I love to sit and watch the sunrise and sunset.. there is just something special about that time of day… which you have captured beautifully…
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Aug 13, 2012 @ 08:01:22
Thank you so much:) I love that time of day too as the light changes and the colors are magical:)
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Aug 12, 2012 @ 18:39:36
Oh, yes, you and I love to capture that beauty that God paints for us so often!
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Aug 12, 2012 @ 22:11:18
Amen:) Me too….I love seeing God’s glory in my life where we live:)
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Aug 12, 2012 @ 15:31:20
He not only painted the sky but gave us the eyes to see it with… how nice is that? 🙂
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Aug 12, 2012 @ 15:40:41
Yes:) We truly are “Blessed”.
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Aug 12, 2012 @ 14:45:10
W-O-W. Amazing sunset and beautiful shots! Love the colors!!
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Aug 12, 2012 @ 15:01:07
Thank you:) I love taking photos like this….the light and the colors are always amazing:)
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