Sunny the Sunfish looked on silently as the rest area quickly filled up. The sky blazed brilliant orange as the sun dipped below the bluffs across Lake Onalaska. Travelers down highway 35 sneaked peeks out the window and some, like me, stopped for a longer look. I was on a food run with a hungry family back home so I couldn't stay long, but the peak of the sunset is brief, anyway. By the time I stopped there were quite a few people gathered, all gazing across the water. Adults with cameras, families with small children, all strangers drawn together by the beauty on that last warm night of Autumn. Some chatted, some just stared in silence, and I ran around like a nut snapping photos. In less than ten minutes the sky had darkened and I was on my way again with my photos and memory all that remained of the sunset.