I have been waiting to write about this one since we got here. It is something I notice every night before chow. “It” being the Sun setting in the West and the Moon appearing in the East. It is one of the most amazing things that I have seen here. Both are almost always a perfect circle and both dominate the sky with their presence.The moon is a bluish grey color and the sun is shades of yellow and orange.
I would guess the reason we notice such beauty is because we are in the middle of the desert. We are in a place with dull and dirty colors. Tones of uniforms as well as green tents that are now tanned from the dust and our vehicles that are shades of tan and green are the only bits of color that we see. There is a lack of true beauty here what little there is seems to be distorted by the numerous dust and wind storms that are here.
I have made many attempts to try to take a great picture of both but my camera has taken a beating in the last few years. It does not take that great of pictures.
To make it even better, there were clouds in the sky. That too is an amazing site in a dreary land. I did get some pretty nice pictures from it. I hope to show them off sometime.
The enclosed photos are from my coworker SGT Savre.
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