Description of a Grand Canyon sunset from a florid 1907 romance novel: Lower and lower sank the sun in the roseate sky, higher and higher rose the mystic blue of the canyon, floating over carved dome and fretted spires, submerging city after city beneath a transparent sea, till only the loftiest crests of rock, the highest pinnacles, were left still glowing blood red in the light above the magic flood. Overhead the sky flashed and changed from pale rose to gold and tranquil green, from blood red back to faint rose, and in it, luminous, in pink glow, behind a great fretted minaret of crimson rock, appeared suddenly the moon, an enormous transparent disc; pale and frail as white tissue it floated up into their sight through the warm-hued sky.

So, was it just like that? :-)

(FABulous pictures.)