I swear I am not making this up.

Some late Spring evenings really do look like this, from our house, looking north.

This is a view of Big Southern Butte at the moment long after sunset when the entire sky is pink and the ground is mostly too dark to see, other than that it is dark green.

Behind Big Southern Butte, you can see the beginnings of the Pioneer Mountains.

I did this quickly, using blocks of color, similar to my farm painting last year. That one portrayed a wheat field just beginning to turn yellow; this field is much younger, still green.

The road barely glimmers in the gloaming.

The green in the foreground is our front lawn.

Here it is, photographed in low light: