Best Sunsets - Southern Iowa

It’s that time of year when I start noticing the sunsets here in Lamoni, Iowa. I first took notice years ago as a visitor who brought kids to the annual “Sports Spectacular” camp on the campus of Graceland College (now Graceland University). Now I live and work here so I get to see them often. I don’t know what it is about this place—the clouds, the climate, the geography, the jet stream, or whatever. Sunsets here can be brilliant with colors that extend all across a sky of clouds and last forever. An Iowa thunderstorm can prepare the sky for a truly spectacular sunset. I have yet to be anywhere that matched this, be it north, west, east or south, on the seas, Hawaii, Australia, Virgin Islands, or elsewhere. I have certainly seen some great sunsets elsewhere, but if I took the time to get my camera they were gone.