Playing With the Sun

All of the following photos were taken late in the day, when the sun was lowering itself toward the horizon. That golden sunlight, just before sunset always gives such warm, rich colour to everything it touches.

Come along with me and we'll see if we can hold onto the sunlight for just a few more minutes before it bids goodnight to the day.

Late day sunlight has the Midas touch. Most everything it touches turns to gold - like these burrs.

Remember doing hand shadows? None of mine ever had golden eyes.

This is a delicate-looking plant of an unknown (to me) variety. You can see the tiny spots which once contained seeds.

Some days it feels like you can just touch the sun.

I took this image on a windy day. I liked how the sunlight touched the flowers on the other side of the chain link fence. If you look closely, you can see the out-of-focus, wavy criss-cross of the fence links which appear to be part of the background, but are really in the foreground.

Hold on for just a little bit longer. Don't let the sun slip through your fingers.

This interesting little bug crawled all over the sunlit goldenrod.

When I was finished playing with the sun, it bounced along the water to tease me. It seems it wasn't quite finished playing with me.