The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-10
SUNSET SKIES
ARE SPLENDID
Sequence of Gorgeous Colorings
Back of Mt. Adams Call for
General Comment
EASTERN MAN SAYS THEY
ARE FINEST HE HAS SEEN
Yakima Has Not Yet, 1t Is
Thought, Capitalized Its Seem
cry to the Utmost-Landscape
Is a Valuable Asset

There is probably a scientific rea-
son why winter sunsets are more
beautiful than summer ones Or it
may be that the winter world, with
its grays and browns and whites. Of
fers more effective background for
the sunset Towering in the sky than
the spring or summer world full of
lovely colors itself. Certain it is that
North yakima this year has had five
or six weeks of wonderful sunsets, a
series almost uninterrupted night af-
ter night.
Artistic Difficulties
The artist who tries to paint a sun
set is likely to have his veracity chal-
lenged. People, looking upon the
gorgeous reproduction upon canvas
of the riot of reds and colds and
greens and blues which the artist has
made, simply say it never happened.
And in describing a sunset in words,
even poet is up against it, for
there are no words existing to ade-
quately hint at some of the opales-
cent hues---the greens which are not
green and the blues which are more
than blue, the gold which passes
eAOu6As SNSiy VI IuOlteH
splendor and the rose which fiushes
and pales and trembles out onto mere
luminousness-which have made of
the western sky this winter a nightly
pageant Of beauty.
Subject of Conversation
Scores of North Yakimans are
watching the everyday phenomenon
of the going down of the sun Sc
much is Old Sol impressing himself
on the public mind by his really high
class performances these evenings
that he has become a topic for con-
lversation among the unastronomical
and the unscientifc. A really excit-
ing bridge game was broken up the
other afternoon by the compelling
force Of a sea of gold which sur
rounded an island OF turquoise blue
with an electric light inside of it, ant
which must be watched constantly II
order that there be missed none o.
the blazing, or the pickering or the
smoking of the fires behind Noun
Adams SHOWS. At their brightest, al
the jewels of Aaron's breastplat,
could be picked out in the sky. Whei
they failed, the after glow made ros.
| all the horizon clouds up TO the yer.
moment when night blotted them GU
with it's gray pail
! Fastener Enthusiastic
! "By George" said a man who hat
lived on the shores of Lake Erie. :"
used to think that we could put UP {
spectacular display back home whel
| the sun dropped down into the LAKE
and the clouds hung just right, blu
nothing like this
Good Business Opening
A thought comes to mind, which II
not altogether new or original, bu
which has not been overworked her,
as yet 1t is that Yakima has We
to capitalize her scenery. The natives
know about 1t, and the winter visitor!
of whom there are more than a few
but hardly anybody outside OF tn,
peculiarly fortunate valley. Bach
east, If they had a horizon decorated
with a couple of snow peaks which
would show UP white on the hottest
day in summer against sky so blue
that even Naples at it's "azurest'
could not beat it, they would neve,
stop talking about it, and 1t Is per-
fectly obvious what Switzerland has
done with a bunch Of mountains
whose total glacial surface, accord
ing to the biologists. doesn't equal
that of the ice rivers contained on
Rainier alone. Scenery has a com
mercial value just as climate has. and
1t is no degradation Of beauty, per-
haps, that many look upon it.