SET O' THE SUN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 7 (Supplement)

SET O' THE SUN

f)EAR ANNE SHIRLEY,—After sunset when the fiery glare has gone, a soft glow takes its place. It is a "delicious" colour of flush red raspberry, broken in places by the peaches and cream of the clouds and backed by orange that looks as soft as silk. A number of horizontal streaks of pastel violet cloud, solid in appearance and sharply outlined with vermilion, stretch across the sky being between a billowy formation of pearly mackerel clouds delicately tinted with rich shades of shell pink.

. The glow, is so bright that the very air seems to be filled with a red fairy dust that is spread over the sombre grey of tli6 hills. Higher in the heavens is a wide ocean of blue which becomes a dull pink and a washed-out yellow as it nears the eastern horizon. Near by a dead tree on the rim of dark hills flings a leaning silhouette of branches and twigs against the glow providing an effective frame which completes the picture of sunset. Yours sincerely, Ken Cochrane. (19.) Mangawhare.