"Oh, so you think I'm gonna make it easy for you to just get up and leave me like that?"

[DFW]

Mother Nature here on Cape Cod gave us a sunset yesterday that was a cruel reminder that in 7 days, we have to leave until next year:

Resolve weakening..........

Resolve weakening still further....................

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Mother Nature sure does know how to hurt people!

Is there any way you can extend your trip? I'm guessing there isn't.

Consider these sunset photos to be extra motivation for your eventual return! As if.

[DFW]

2. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature

[Tadpole Raisin]

8. Wow that brought back memories!

Do they even make Chiffon now?
LOL!!

[DFW]

16. I haven't a clue

That ad used to come on while I was still living in the U.S.

It certainly outlived the product it was trying to sell!

[DFW]

5. Oh, and no, I can't extend the trip

Taking five weeks as it is was unprecedented for me.

(you won't tell anyone or post it on the internet, will you?)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Of course not! It'll be our little secret.

[erronis]

3. I didn't know there were so many shades of reds and yellows. Gorgeous.

But even if "we" do leave, these skies will continue on (I hope) for the next round of creatures who might appreciate them more.

[DFW]

4. It would be a tragedy if it died with us n/t

[7wo7rees]

6. Oh my!! Stunningly beautiful!!

Mother Nature is giving you a loving kiss!

[DFW]

24. We always tell her back....

“Promises, promises!”

[Grins]

7. I used to live on Nantucket...

I saw that every night. Ritual was to have cocktails with the setting sun. And when it really got good? When the sun was just below the horizon…

[DFW]

17. I've never been there, but I hear it's pretty spectacular, too

We saw similar things in Waikoloa and South Kona. When my daughter spent two years of school in Waimea on the Big Island, her roomie was from South Kona, so she went to her roomie’s house on the weekends. It was little more than a shack put together with scotch tape and Elmer’s glue, but it was on the water (everybody knows Hawaiians can’t afford to live in Hawai’i). Nothing like watching dolphins play in front of your house at breakfast!

[Tadpole Raisin]

9. Stunning pictures. I could look at those all day!

[DFW]

23. Unenhanced, too!

Sometimes, it’s such a show, no one wants to take the 15 seconds to stop staring and take a picture. I pity the painters. How is someone’s imagination supposed to top this?

[relayerbob]

10. Gorgeous! Thanks!

[Ligyron]

11. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light".

[DFW]

19. Very much so.

The real rage starts around Thursday morning. That’s when my wife tells me to start packing.

[cayugafalls]

12. All good things come to an end...Pictures and memories, paint added to the canvas of our lives...

[LudwigPastorius]

13. Meanwhile, in DFW...

[DFW]

21. I've heard

I value my life, so I don’t gloat when I’m on the phone to them. I have to face them in person from time to time.

[paleotn]

14. A parting gift. Incredible!

[DFW]

22. It makes me repeat Schwarzenegger's signature line:

I’ll be back

[Chicagogrl1]

18. Where on the Cape are you??

CC is one of my favorite places on earth!! Best Lobster Bisque in Chatham!! Wonderful restaurant in Yarmouth called Old Yarmouth Inn. Been @ since the 1700’s. Best place on the Cape!!

[DFW]

20. We are on the outer Cape.

Truro. That tiny, nearly uninhabited piece of land between Provincetown and Wellfleet. The street to get here off of Route 6 isn’t even paved. I see enough of what passes for civilization during the rest of the year. For this one stretch, I take some down time.

[Chicagogrl1]

25. Sounds like paradise!

[DFW]

26. That is relative, of course

If you are used to palm trees and sky blue water, that’s not here, but the air, the food, the calm, the music, the beaches and the wonderful people make it close enough to paradise for us that we have now been coming here 37 years in a row, and it’s not exactly around the corner for us.

[lpbk2713]

27. Looks like something out of a travel brochure.

And you get to see it every evening.

Well, for a few more evenings anyway.

[DFW]

28. Last one is next Friday

But we have been here since July 3, so I can’t whine. Some people get only 2 weeks vacation. Some get none at all. I’ve had to work some while here, but it was all phone/remote stuff that I couldn’t do because I am too far away (DUH! That is exactly why I go go so far away!). Things I never delegate? I delegate them. My people in Europe are very loyal, and they know I’d never ask them to do something I could do unless I’m sick or not there.

[Fla Dem]

29. Cape Cod is giving you a gift to make sure you come back!

[DFW]

30. I don't need a lot of persuading

This is my 37th year in a row