The glowing vapour above this was as yet colourless ; then this took a beautiful olive or celadon green, not so vivid as the previous day’s, and delicately fluted; the green belt was broader than the orange, and pressed down on and contracted it. Above the green in turn appeared a red glow, broader and burlier in make; it was softly brindled, and in the ribs or bars the colour was rosier, in the channels where the blue of the sky shone through it was a mallow colour. Above this was a vague lilac. The red was first noticed 45° above the horizon, and spokes or beams could be seen in it, compared by one beholder to a man’s open hand. lly 4·45 the red had driven out the green, and, fusing with the remains of the orange, reached the horizon. By that time the east, which had a rose tinge, became of a duller red, compared to sand: according to my observation, the ground of the sky in the east was green , or else tawny, and the crimson only in the clouds. A great sheet of heavy dark cloud, with a reefed or puckered make, drew off the west in the course of the pageant : the edge of this and the smaller pellets of clond that filed acro;s the bright field of the sundown caught a livid green. At 5 the red in the west was fainter, at 5· 20 it became notably rosier and liveiier; but it was never of a pure rose. A faint dusky blush was left as late as 5.3o, or later. While these changes were going on in the sky, the landscape of Ribblesdale glowed with a frowning brown.
the glowing vapour, a glow, the sky, the east, the clouds, the landscape of Ribblesdale
27 Mon Nov 2023