This is the season of wonder.
Young children feel it immediately.
Adults must be reminded. Sunset in Mendocino on Tuesday, December 19, was scorchingly magnificent. The sky lit up interior walls as if the ocean was on fire. We sounded the Sunset Alert, used only when exceptional winter displays are in danger of being missed. A few moments later thirty people were standing in clusters on the sidewalk, faces turned west, watching the sky bleed in technicolor.