Nature, and other Romantic notions

Every time Nature has me totally convinced that I hate her with my very soul, she turns around and does something like this.

I was walking home today, looking, I think, rather like some kind of
vagabond bag-lady in my dad's coat and my red hat and twelve-foot long
scarf (maybe eleven feet). I spent the first ten minutes swinging my
umbrella around to Mitternacht and feeling very Nicodemus-y, and then I
walked with Collin, who has been in some of my English classes and who
lives near me. Contrary to popular thought, I actually sometimes talk
to people I meet on campus. So, continuing on, he opted for the quick
way home because he had to study for an exam - also probably because I
talk too much, owing to that he asks me things and then doesn't
give elaborate answers when I ask back. So, I was listening to Cyber
Rose and singing out loud and being generally silly and dancing all
over the road, when I was caught by a flash of light down one of the
side roads. I thought it was a car's headlights, at first, and when I
looked, they seemed to multiply into dozens. My thought then was,
irrationally, that someone was holding a huge festival down there and
had strung up million-watt lights in the trees, kind of like in
Lothlorien, only very bright. As I walked, it moved, and I finally
realized (I say "finally"... this probably all took place in three or
so seconds) that it was the setting sun through the trees. I haven't
often seen the setting sun when it was that color of white-yellow. It
was streaming, and tangible, and beautiful.

And then, I turned, and on the other side of the street I could see that the very tips of
the highest trees were brilliantly illuminated. The sky behind them was
a very dark grey. Everything was wet and grey and bits were lit up all
around.

And just a few moments ago, the whole world was completely pink. It's gone blue, now. Darkness falls fast around here.

Oh, yes! For those involved, I was able to get someone to sub for me on Sunday, so I can go to the support rally. *gladness*

Now if I can just get everything done that's due at random times in the near future, I'll be all set.