"At Northwest latitudes, summer sunsets can be prolonged for as much as an hour. The effect is unknown in tropical areas, where the sun plunges over the horizon in brief red glory.
Northwest twilights linger. The sky is in no hurry. Gradually it deepens, until finally the sun slips down as if reluctant to leave. Malcom Roberts, active as a surrealist painter in the 1930s, called this daily magical interval the "Hour of the Pearl." French painters know a similar phenomenon on the Riviera as l'heure bleue."
Northwest twilights linger. The sky is in no hurry. Gradually it deepens, until finally the sun slips down as if reluctant to leave. Malcom Roberts, active as a surrealist painter in the 1930s, called this daily magical interval the "Hour of the Pearl." French painters know a similar phenomenon on the Riviera as l'heure bleue."
Arment, D.T. "Morris Graves: Northwest Gothic." Iridescent Light. U of W press, Seattle. 2002. p 112.
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