Stanton, in addition to being Georgia prickly (won't go further into the Jawja personality than that), you are also something of a frontier poet and an incipient artist. There is a long known artistic reason for this - 10-30 degrees sun angle creates incredible colors and shadows. The date of course depends on your latitude.

And over the course of 60 years on 4 continents, I've observed that light might be the most striking influence of all - over topography, ethnography.... It's funny, when I pass over the Georgian-Florida border going south - the light suddenly changes.

Sargent painted this over two months posing the children and waiting for just 15 minutes of light at 20 degrees:
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Maxfield Parrish and other illustrators knew this.
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Myself, the most incredible light color change had to be India-Pakistan in November-February - walk-up hunting quail in the slanting sun in Dec-Jan in Uttar Pradesh in the mustard fields was like walking through gold - and this photo from 1977 in Karachi much faded - the blues were intense as were the golds - doesn't hold a candle to the reality:
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