PHOTOGRAPHICAL SERENDIPITY...
...it exists, ah say, it definitely exists...
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A musician I know through the "Huckleberries Online" website, headquarted in North Idaho, where I used to live, posted this picture (below) of a really strange-looking cloud formation, and when I first saw it, I just about stripped my gears! Why? Because I'd been out, taking pictures today since it was only the 2nd or 3rd sunny day we've had here on the Oregon Coast this year. And I believe I took a picture of the same sunset, 500 miles west of where Don's picture was taken. Could it be? You be the judge. Below, you'll see his photo of the Sunset Skies over Coeur d'Alene Lake...
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Now, below, you'll see pictures I took on this very same evening at almost the same time. This was taken through the windshield, so it looks a little grainy. The Sunset, happening at Bastendorff Beach, Oregon. Actually, you can't see the sun set just yet; the days are too short and the Sun is too far south. So instead, the sun sets over the ocean cliffs here. The coastline here faces Northeast, so that throws off the the whole East-West orientation thing. Anyway, here's my photo #1...
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I'd been looking at the Ocean all day, ignoring what was happening overhead. It was quite a show. When I looked to the skies, I saw one of the weirdest cloud formations I'd ever seen. In this second photo, I Actually Got Out Of The Car to take it. Ah, the sacrifices we make for our art...
Here it is, folks; photo #2...

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The advancing bank of clouds looks like what we'd see if the planet Mercury drifted off-course, to smash into Earth. Or if the Moon decided to just give up, end it all, and crash into the Pacific Ocean, this might be what we'd see? Actually, I was watching the History Channel last nite, which informed me that the moon is getting further and further away from earth, at the rate of about one-and-a-half-inches per year, so we won't have any Lunar incidents anytime soon. At least, that's the theory.

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Finally, here's one of the Best Photos I Will Ever Take. As I was panning the camera around, this shot Announced Itself to my brain, so 'whirrrrr-click', here we have a two-tone sky with monochromatic forestation in the foreground. Just beyond those trees is where the ocean is. So, buoys and gulls, (a little bit of ocean humor there), here's the Grand Finale...
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The fact that both of us were out there with cameras, at virtually the same time, photographing the same thing 500 miles apart just blew my mind. Small World Indeed. Earlier, I referred to the Huckleberries Online blogsite, and here's its Cyber address: www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/hbo. On that site, there's Never A Dull Moment.