Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

Lately, my horizons have been decorated with intensely colored sunsets and breathtaking sunrises, but always bounded by the mountains I have chosen to call home. Peach-orange brush strokes light up the sky while the world below is retreating into blue and black shadows:

Golden hazy clouds simulate a light-covered ocean beyond the mountain ridge skyline:

Purple dancing with crimson and gold dress up the sky in festive colors before night closes in:

The final golden-hued rays kiss the mountains tops good-night and promise to return after the dark hiatus of the night:

And morning does return. The clear blue ridgeline against the pale morning sky cannot contain for long the ephemeral misty veils beginning to rise: