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Here in the Northwest, the sun rose about 7:43 today. By that time, I had eaten breakfast — two thick slices of smoked pepper bacon, scrambled eggs with pepper jack cheese, toast slathered with butter and a thin layer of Kelly’s Habanero Pepper Jelly — and was relaxing with my second cup of coffee.
Sipping my coffee, I leisurely watched the dark sky begin to lighten as the sun began sending its rays over the southeast horizon. Then, suddenly, in the moments just before the sun rose, the sky turned pale blue and its rays caught the underside of the clouds turning them a beautiful rosy hue in every direction you looked so that you could not tell where the sun was rising.
From my window, a small patch of sky framed by dark tree silhouettes was breath-takingly beautiful. I set down my mug and rushed outside. I was instantly surrounded by the fog of my breath. A heavy frost covered the ground and neighborhood roofs, and ice was on car windshields. And like a crazy woman, I ran around our house — without a coat, in my flip flops, my iPhone point skyward, snapping shots.
I’m glad my immediate neighbors are family.
By the time I was ready to get a sky shot to the east, the rose hue was gone.
Back in my warm house, I texted a picture to my DIL who lives on the east side of us. She responded, “Too bad I didn’t have my blinds open yet; the kids would have had fun watching Gramma run around like that. Also, too bad I missed that beautiful painting in the sky.”
Thought for the Day
The “surround visual effect” of the sunrise today reminded me
that God surrounds me with His presence.
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Your pictures are magnificent and your story of running around in no coat on a frosty morning is memorable!
Thank you, Anita. If I would have stopped to put on a coat, I would not have gotten the pictures. The sky was changing so fast!
Your pictures are stunning. You weren’t kidding about the 360 sky show! I appreciated your details, too. (Yum, bacon!) This is something I can work on for some of my slices. I’m trying to write with different formats, and a detailed one like this would be good to use.
Thank you, Linda. I always know my day is going to be good when I smell bacon and coffee.
Further proof that Mother Nature is a first-class artist. You were lucky to be up and see her extraordinary work. I am sure your grandkids would have had a smile seeing their grandmother out in flip flops with no coat snapping pictures of the sky. But your pictures are well worth it.
Yep, I think my grandkids would have laughed if they’d seen me.
As I read your slice, I kept thinking how this is a true small moment. And you describe it so well. I can taste the yummy breakfast due to your precise words. I am sipping the coffee. Then the action happens! And then I was treated to lovely photos that you took in your flip-flops!! Thanks for reminding me to addd ALL the details because that is what makes a good slice GREAT! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Sally. Over the years I’ve practice observing small things as a form of entertainment, part of being a 30-year road warrior — waiting to board, waiting to push back, waiting to take off, waiting to deplane, waiting for my connecting flight only to begin the waiting cycle again… and then waiting for my luggage and the hotel shuttle. So sometimes when I’m waiting, I watch and rehearse the details around me. Sometimes I write them down, in a string of words.