At Sunset — Three Views to Remember

At Sunset — Three Views to Remember

What Might Have Been!

Today, at sunset I took my Canon 6D to one of my favorite locations in Loma Linda to view the Towers of Healing. At sunrise or sunset, the once iconic cloverleaf towers that absorbed the sunset hues for over a half of a century have now been supplanted by the towering glass and GFRC panels, which not only absorb but reflect the radiant, kaleidoscopic, shades of color in a larger than life high-definition 1080p display. As I snapped the shutter up on that rise, I thought how neat it would be to one day bring my easel, stool, a canvas, a painters palette, a few tubes of acrylic pastel paint, and a couple of brushes along with a, must have, painters smock, and paint away. To pacify my creative urge to put brushes to canvas, I took to the magic of photoshop and created an oil painting with the stroke of a few computer keys. And so, the featured image is a figment of my imagination of what might have been, if I had put paint to canvas.

The sunrises and sunsets will ever be more radiant now that the new towers of healing punctuate the Loma Linda Skies.
Like a giant screen, the north face of the adult tower reflects the colors of the western sky.
As the sun sinks in the wester sky, a crescent moon hangs high over the new towers of Healing.
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Dennis E. Park, MA
After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨