Moonset After Sunset

Tonight just after dark the Moon was like Robin Hood's bow suspended in the black sky above where the orange glow of the sunset above the mountains trickles off into darkness. It was pointed downward, towards the sunset, as it should do, by the laws of geometry, straight and true the arrow flies toward the Sun, even if it takes a Great Circle across the sky.

I learned that from an old female physicist in graduate school---Cecile. She had gotten her Ph.D. in Normandy during World War, although I didn't know that until just recently.