Middletown Daily Photo: Skywatch Friday: Blueish Sunset

Friday, January 16, 2009

Skywatch Friday: Blueish Sunset

I was walking past a window in my house recently and saw an incredible sunset setting up. The clouds and color change fast, so I grabbed the camera and started shooting. This is one of the shots:

Drop by next Friday to see how completely different this same sunset looked just twenty minutes later.

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8 comments:

Guy D said...: Beautiful skywatch shot, thanks for sharing and have a great weekend.

Cheers!
Regina In Pictures; January 16, 2009 at 1:29 AM
Lew said...: Beautiful sunset! You have a great view to watch sunsets. I have tried to get a clear view from Braddock Mountain when over that way at sunset.; January 16, 2009 at 2:07 AM
FO - 2 said...: Lovely. :)
Beautiful colors.; January 16, 2009 at 5:38 AM
Jane Hards Photography said...: It's just beautiful; January 16, 2009 at 8:33 AM
The Good Life in Virginia said...: love the colors of the sunset sky and the tree against it.
have a wonderful weekend.; January 16, 2009 at 9:42 AM
HappyK said...: A striped sky! Beautiful! I love seeing it through the tree branches.; January 16, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Rune A Karlsen (Bildebloggen) said...: Beautiful sunset very nice color!; January 17, 2009 at 6:16 AM
Anonymous said...: Wow- gorgeous intense streaks of color!
-gel; January 18, 2009 at 6:51 PM

About Middletown

Middletown, Maryland was founded in 1767 and is said to be named either for its position midway between South Mountain and the Catoctin Mountains or its central location between the larger Maryland cities of Frederick and Hagerstown. A few years earlier, a visiting surveyor and future “Father of our Country” George Washington referred to Middletown Valley as one of the most beautiful places he had ever seen.

The town was incorporated in 1833. After the Civil War battles of South Mountain and Antietam, Middletown churches served as hospitals for both Union and Confederate soldiers.

Today Middletown boasts a delicate balance of old and new. Instead of a Mayor, the town leader is a Burgess. Some of the buildings were built in the 1700s and 1800s. There are large Victorian homes as well as the typical cookie-cutter subdivisions that dot the edge of the Washington DC commuter exurbs.

The only franchise restaurant in town is a Subway; the only Starbucks is inside the Safeway.

If you really want to understand what small-town America feels like, visit Middletown during the Independence Day festivities and fireworks at Middletown Park, the Volunteer Fire Department’s annual mid-July Carnival or the Middletown Heritage Festival held in the fall.