Silent Sunrise (Wait for It)

                                                                     

                            

                                                                    

Evensong

 

Looking East

The sun was a molten red when it rose a few minutes after 7 --alas, from my bedroom it was mostly obscured by trees. In the couple of minutes it took me to get to the front porch, clouds had swallowed it up. 

I shall have to get up a bit earlier.

 

Glory in the Morning

      

                         

I am so very fortunate to awake (with Jenny's help,) to this glorious view.

As I sit on the chest at the foot of the bed and put on my socks and shoes, I watch the early sun gilding the trees.

Those same trees are hiding the full sweep of the horizon, but somehow it only emphasizes the beauty of the far off mountains that are still visible.

As an old English major I'm tempted to see some sort of lesson here, to draw some sort of parallel . . .

But I'll save that for another day.

Keeping a Balance

What I really wanted to do first thing yesterday morning was to look at the internet and see if the Toddler-in-Chief had used the State of the Union to announce he was bombing Iran--a possibility John and I had discussed might be used as a distraction from those pesky Epstein files. But first I had to let Jenny out. And the sunrise was beautiful so I grabbed a few pictures. And then the cats had to be fed. Finally I checked breaking news on my phone and was happy to see that Iran was safe for the moment.

Morning

 

Evening Looking East

 

Living in Middle Earth

                                              Looking at the beauty surrounding us, I sometimes feel like the astronauts who looked back at the beautiful blue ball of Earth and wondered how something so lovely could contain so much suffering and hatred.

Sunrise Sequence Sans Sun

 

A New Day

 

7:13 AM

 

Looking East--around 6 AM and 7 PM

I'd hoped to catch the actual sunrise but the mist blocked everything within minutes of this shot.

       

 And then, in the evening . . .

                                                     

Layers

 

Happy To Be Here

 

Looking East

 

Inching Toward Spring

                                                        

The rising sun is working its way from the far right of this photo to a bit beyond the left edge which will be the equinox. A ways to go but even slow progress out of winter is welcome.

Looking East, 7:30 AM

 

Looking East

 

Early Morning with Jenny

                                                                                    

I probably wouldn't crawl out of a warm bed before sunup to go out and appreciate the dawn in below freezing weather if it weren't for Jenny. But she needs to attend to business, so out we go.

And what a gift, to enjoy the day's dawning and the pastel sky etched with dark branches!

Jenny seems appreciative too.

Early Morning, Thanks to Jenny

 Because Jenny likes to run around and howl, we try not to let her out on her own recognizance till after nine. And she's up by seven thirty. So this means a leashed stroll out back to attend to the necessary.

Could be worse. These days the leaves are falling, swirling gold around us till I feel like Danae in the myth. It's kinda magical--but hard to capture on camera when a hound is pulling at you.

Still, the increasingly bare trees are etching lovely patterns against the pastel morning sky and it's a pleasure to be out in a beautiful fall dawn.