Summer Sunrise
/Since we are past the summer solstice - it gets easier every day to be up and about before the sunrise. My usual wake up time is about 5:30 so it wasn’t too hard to get up – dressed – and into the car to drive to a nearby vantage point (once the leaves are on the trees, my front porch is no longer a good place to see the sunrise). I got to the place I’d planned about 5:45 AM - 10 minutes or so before sunrise. It was better than I had anticipated. Under the tall power lines there was a layer of mist at the ground and good color in the sky.
I took a series of pictures starting in the northeast…around to the southeast. There were a few clouds to reflect the light and provide some purple. I didn’t stay until the sun was up; the colors just before sunrise were what I wanted.
I like starting out the day outdoors…full of beauty and morning sounds. Most mornings I am on the covered deck of my house making a Zentangle tile shortly after 6 (now that it’s summer and the temperature then is the most comfortable of the day) – listening to the birds singing and the occasional other sounds from the forest. It was invigorating to do something different first thing in the morning and has started me thinking of what else I might do to break up my morning pattern occasionally.
