Today we had the chance to drive out for sunset at Hopi Point — though right up to the end we did not know whether we would get there. The rangers said it plainly: there is a storm in the area. The road may turn out to be closed. It may turn out that you have to come back in a hurry.
We got there. And we stayed as long as we wanted.
It was not the sunset I had expected. Instead of a sky full of colour there was the navy of the storm, curtains of rain and a narrow orange band above the horizon. But when you think about it — a storm at this time
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