One of my favourite things about going to the in-laws’ cottage is the chance to wander down to the dock and watch the setting sun. I like sunsets pretty much anywhere, and 2005 gave us some really good ones.

In May of that year, I was still playing with a relatively new point-and-shoot camera, and I wanted to see what kind of sunsets I might get during the long weekend. Earlier in the day, it looked like there might be too many clouds on the horizon. But as night began to fall, the colour started. And then it went spectacular, even with my simple camera.

Later on in August, I managed to catch one just near the house.

But at Thanksgiving, we were headed back to the cottage, and en route, we got a series of shots like this one.

A pretty decent year for sunsets, I’d say.