Sunset with a little Flare

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My friend Sharon is married to Don. Sharon and Don are both chemical engineers (so you know they are extremely nice people, right, like all chemical engineers.) Sharon works in an office downtown, Don works at one of the oil refineries on the river. Chemical Engineers in love, something special about that. They are very romantic. I think they murmur to each other about subcooled reflux and isentropic expansion and the beauty and elegance of feed forward process controls.

Whenever I see the flare going at the refinery I call Sharon and tell her, “Call Don and tell him to get his butt out in the plant, something’s wrong!”

Last several times I’ve called she hasn’t picked up though. I wonder what’s up with that.

12 thoughts on “Sunset with a little Flare

  1. Sylvia K

    Terrific capture, beautiful colors, and I, too, love the meandering river! Could do without the flares, but still, a gorgeous way to end the day. Lois is right though, you just might want to think up another line for Sharon. Thanks for the beauty and the chuckle as always!

    Sylvia

  2. EG Wow

    Love how the sky is reflected in the river, Yogi. And OF COURSE all chemical engineers are nice people…just like Canadians, most of the time. :))

  3. Janie

    Ha, I hope Sharon and Don find something non-engineering to murmur sweet nothings about.
    The flare does look romantic, and I like how both sunset colors and the flare are reflected in the river.

  4. healingmagichands

    See this is a very amazing photo because it is absolutely artistically created and the light is sublime. ‘

    But there’s a subtext here in the beauty of the gas flares you can’t help but start to see that the light is beautiful because of the things that are in it, there’s a haze of pollution that would feel acrid in the throat.

    So the thing makes you think and still you are seduced by the beauty.

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