END OF SEPTEMBER -- EARLY OCTOBER 2018
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 End of Sept.-Early Oct. 2018 I write this on Oct. 1, 2018. The photos I took this morning and posted are mostly for those who have never been to Resurrection Bay for one of our sunrises on a clear Autumn day. A hundred years ago this day it was raining for Kent on Fox Island – but later that week the weather cleared. On Oct. 4, 1918 Kent wrote: “A glorious lovely day, a cloudless sky and the wind in the north. That puts life into men! Up at sunrise, we two.” That day Kent would probably have caught the pink on the mountains to the west. He had seen and commented on it earlier during September’s last days when the rain stopped and the skies cleared. One must understand that actual sunrise along Resurrection Bay is different from when the sun first peeks up above the mountains to the east. To catch the colors, one must rise before the sun actually appears. The photos I’ve posted show h...