As the sun sets in the northwest...

Wait a sec... living as I do in Charlottesville, Virginia, there's no way the sun can be setting in the northwest.

It rises in the east and sets in the west, all to the south in the depths of early January winter.

So what gives with the photos above and below, taken yesterday afternoon around 4:20 p.m. out my window, which faces directly north?

Turns out that the reflection of the sun off the glass in a window on the wall 90° to the left of the one you're looking out of appears as if it really were the sun.

I only noticed this the past couple weeks, I'm thinking as a result of the fantastic whole house upstairs/downstairs inside/outside (storms included) window cleaning by Steven Jackson's 2nd Glance Window Cleaning.

With the glass free to reflect light sans the crud of decades of accumulated whatnot, a whole new world is revealing itself.

Best $345 I spent all last year.

You can bet I'm gonna take them up on their recommendation to do it annually.

FunFact: Steven told me he has a number of individuals who have him do their entire house monthly.

Now that's intense.