A thought while seeing this recent sunset over Great Cove: February’s sunsets along the coast are more fantastical than the obviously beautiful winter sunsets of the rest of the winter months.
The sunset lights of November through January often seemingly are in bold, delineated strokes of oil paint, easy to humanize. Those in February often seemingly are in emerging, luminescent sweeps and dabs of watercolor or, sometimes, a strange combination of oil and watercolor, that tell a more complicated story. (Image taken in Brooklin, Maine, on February 16, 2023.)