Since last week we have been having the most amazing sunsets in Sabah. On Thursday evening I was up in Pitas and I joined some colleagues for a meal in a little restaurant on stilts over the sea and watched the colours changing for about an hour. The sea was like a lake and had no ripples and the reflection was beyond description with the spectrum of colours turning from gold to pink and then a wonderful purple and blue. Friday evening came, which of course was Halloween, and apart from buying a pumpkin for some soup, that was about all I did in recognition of the festival. Halloween of course being a Celtic pagan festival isn't celebrated here but I expect there were some bars in KK that had people arriving as witches, ghosts or draculas. I did however go to my local beach and enjoy another amazing sunset which was one of those which turned the sea to gold. I often don't have my camera but fortunately did that night but of course every second it keeps changing and you end up with lots that look the same.
The spectacular sunset reminded me of the sunset six years ago on the day of Halloween when my mother was buried. After the Memorial Service in Magheragall and the
glorious Ulster tea and sandwiches in the village hall, the immediate family drove
along the small winding roads of County Down to Castlewellan to the family
grave. The view from Drumcree Cemetery must surely be one of the beautiful views in Ireland, overlooking the Mourne
Mountains and Tullymore forest and just before the sunset on 31st
October 2008 , Elizabeth was reunited with her Tom, 73 years to the day of
their first meeting. When we walked
down the hill from the grave that night of Hallowe'en ,the sky exploded into
the most magnificent firework sunset with Slieve Donard silhouetted on the sky as if in
celebration that at last they were together.........Miss you Mummy.
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