En route to Kent on Monday evening to visit the labyrinth in Chislehurst Methodist Church (story here), we were treated to a most amazing heavenly display. It was so beautiful, in fact, that we detoured to find a side road so we could get out of the car to enjoy it with our cameras:
Scientifically, the explanation is that there was a band of Saharan dust drifting across our part of the country which caused a beautiful sunset as beams of sunlight, called Crepuscular rays, passed through gaps in the clouds and were made more visible through the dust particles.