This SkyWatch is courtesy my brother, TR (below). These pictures were taken at the Great Wall by Xie Songxin, Editor at China Daily, when TR visited China last summer.
Cold weather evenings here are touched with melancholy. It becomes dark so early, and the evening is so short. The day does a quick-fade, and spirits dip even as we get a thrill looking at all the play of light in the Western sky.