The First Sun Settings in 2011: Ellis Island

photo credit: David Foell

The Last Setting of the 2010 Sun on the Hudson River

I witnessed the last 2010 sunset in Hudson and it felt like being in a Thomas Cole's painting. The temperature rose and the ice started melting: the majestic Hudson resumed its flow ---which seemed to have stopped for a few days. The low sunlight started reflecting again in the water constellated by myriads of ice island, creating a shimmering kaleidoscope.

Last Settings of the 2010 Sun on the Hudson

One of my favorite sun observation points is the majestic Hudson shore.

The river usually reflects the low sun light in a shimmering kaleidoscope; you can witness two suns, in the water reflecting the sky.

Yesterday evening only one sun reigns sovereign over the stillness of the frozen water; the majestic silence is broken only by the cracking of the ice.

This evening, the last setting sun of 2010, offered another spectacle: today higher temperature make melt the some of the ice of the frozen river. The Hudson resumes his flowing movement, offering to the ocean some of the remaining ice. Colors dance in the sky and the reflecting water: blue, green, orange yellow and white say goodbye to a dark 2010