Greet the Day

It's amazing:

How much more you can appreciate a sunrise after a good night's sleep.

How for a brief time the rising sun can set the sky afire, and then so quickly fade to gray.

How easily one could miss such a show.

I was up at seven this morning, not my usual hour, but feeling good after a real night's sleep. Instead of getting going on the day, I planted myself in front of my computer, to catch up on blogs. I have a window that looks out through the trees toward the southeast.

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I suddenly caught a glimpse of glowing red. I hurried downstairs, grabbed my camera, and was out on the front porch. But with so many trees and houses in the way, I had to walk farther. I grabbed heavy slippers and found myself standing at the end of our long driveway, in my robe, out in the street, in the cold gray dawn, taking pictures of a fiery eastern sky.

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By the time I got back to the house, it was gone.

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The saying goes " Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning", and I do know it is going to rain later. That's OK. I have indoor activities planned.

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But I greeted the day in a spectacular way!

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And I even picked up the newspaper while I was about it.