[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]

The sunset in Denver last night was absolutely stunning, because of  smoke from the Lime Gulch Fire. (The wildfires are awful. But they do create a certain perilous, bittersweet beauty at times, and this was the ultimate example of that.) I was heading to Walgreens to pick up prescriptions when I saw it, at which point I promptly changed my route and drove toward the Stapleton Control Tower, realizing that that was the photo I absolutely had to have. It was reminiscent of the time, during law school at Notre Dame, when I sprinted across campus to the Main Building when I saw that there was a beautiful rainbow overhead and immediately realized that the rainbow over the Golden Dome was the dynamite, must-have shot. Anyway, on this occasion, I pulled over on Central Park Boulevard near the intersection with MLK, got out of the car, madly jaywalked across the street in search of a better angle, and ultimately took a whole bunch of shots with my iPhone. (This all happened too fast to think of bringing my SLR.) My favorite photo, I think, is the panorama above, but I tweeted several others, too: here, here and here.