When It Started

Wow -- that was a gorgeous sunset captured well. I like how you used it in both a circle and then in the frame. You have created an interesting and lovely layout and your story about it is both sad and funny.

on first glance, this is stunning in it's capture and treatment of that sunset across all the frames but sunset or sundowning is also kind of symbolic and metaphoric here with your words about dementia - i hope there were some positives on that reunion trip too

@bellbird Thank you, of course, positives, we saw my friend, saw the beaches, I took 800 photos, and want to go back. Sundowning, you are so right. My stepfather died from this dreadful disease. My poor, sweet mother-in-law is a shell of herself. There's nothing of her left. It's cruel. I hate this as much as I hate cancer. I try not to use the word hate much.
@flowersgal Thank you so much. It's like that lyric in a Springsteen song, "someday we'll look back at this and it will seem funny" Not that it will be funny, just seem funny.
So, my mother-in-law was staying in a room with her niece and her handicapped son, the niece was trying to get in touch with us (she's in her 70's?) and calling our home phone. When we got home, the rant was hilarious. I think she didn't want to deal with mom and Steve-oh-Steve. (his nickname)

beautiful colours

@Angela Toucan Thank you.

That must be so hard, and that trip must have been dominated by it. I love your recording of it x