Last week my husband and I met for supper after work.  Following him home I noticed the sky was turning orange and pink, and that the clouds were all ringed in brilliant gold.  But I didn’t have my camera.

By the time I made it home, raced into the house, found the camera and made it out to the park the sky looked like this:

Then a couple of days ago I noticed the trees in the backyard glowing in the late evening light.  I went outside to investigate.  Looking east was like looking into a classical Renaissance landscape.  Well…except for the paved road:

And toward the west the sky was turning into this:

The thing I’ve learned about photography and light is that you can never outrun the sun.  That perfect photo that you catch a glimpse of will be lost while you’re looking for the camera and it can never be recaptured.

Sometimes perfect remains in your mind…and good enough is what you get.