Looking East Yet Again

                        

 

 

 

 

Sun Arise

                                            

Every time I watch the sunrise, I play host to an ear worm from 1963--the didgeridoo hit from Australia--"Sun Arise". You can hear it HERE.

As I watch the light fill the room, I'm hearing the twang of the didgeridoo and the simple lyrics "See the sun, come in the morning, spreading all the light all around. . ."

Apparently the lyrics were inspired by the Aboriginal characterization of the Sun as a woman, spreading her glowing skirts over the land.

Works for me.

 

Harvest Moonrise

This was Saturday night and these are from my phone. Having difficulty with the card reader on my computer . . .

 

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