The best time of day is just as the sun is on its way down and is sitting 30 - 45 degrees from the horizon, starting to cast long shadows on the ground. It doesn't matter whether it's 9pm during the Summer or 4pm in the Winter. There's something about that setting that I find calming and overly pleasing. It makes me want to get in touch with my inner self. I find that exact moment even more pleasant when I catch it leaving the office early, like around 4:30pm in the late Fall or early Spring - because it's as if I could only enjoy that feeling by leaving the office early. Wish we had more of those here. But throughou the year in Taiwan, the sun sets between 4pm - 7pm... usually before I leave the office. Too bad.