Picture of the day - January 22, 2008

Cuba's setting sun

Yesterday's picture featured a colorful Key West, Florida sunrise, and today I thought we might stay in that part of the world and pay a photographic visit to the island of Cuba where this spectacular seaside sunset displayed a few magnificent colors of its own. Cuba is a land of steep contrasts. Lying a mere 90 odd miles from the most prosperous nation on earth, her people live in desperate poverty under the hammer-like thumb of the island nation's communist regime. God blessed Cuba with some of the world's most stunning scenery and amazing beaches, making her a tropical paradise that used to draw vacationers from all around the world. But today Cuba's once-flourishing tourism industry is no more, and her citizens are among the poorest in the western hemisphere. I guess it would be fair to say that modern-day Cuba truly is a paradise lost. I have often wondered why some of the planet's most beautiful places are inhabited by some of its most destitute people, especially in places like Cuba where an open and free society could live quite well on the bounty that their Creator has blessed them with. I thank the good Lord every day that He blessed me with the good fortune of being born in the United States of America.   Click here to comment on this picture.   Visit the POTD Archives for previous "Pictures Of The Day"!     Submit a photo of your own!            Why I publish the "Picture of the Day"