The Year is Complete!

Please feel free to look back through the 365 days of 2010 sunrises, but "a year of getting up to meet the day" is officially completed. There will be no more new posts.

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A one year blog project in which I share a process of transitions: emptying of the nest, reacquainting with my rusty intellect, plowing onward with my first full length book, entering the second half of my first century, and generally reflecting on life.

(see Dec. 29th, 2009 entry for further explanation)

Saturday, May 29, 2010

perfect morning

sunrise:  4:55

Whenever there are triple digits in the hour - like 5:55 - my kids always say, "Five fifty-five! Make a wish!" (or two twenty-two, etc).  At the moment of today's sunrise at 5:55, I was wishing for a lot more mornings like this one.

My camera's reproductions can only begin to do the day justice.  Besides, it wasn't any particular visual beauty that made this morning so striking.  It was just...perfect.

The air is fresh and tantalizing as it plays across your face, and it is just cool enough to be comfortable in an open jacket.  The birds are in full twittering chorus (and I recognize a few more, having attended my first bird walk the other day).  Bullfrogs are sounding their deep bellows with gusto.

Wildflowers carpet great spans of field, or fill smaller shadowed glades under trees.  Clouds drift in magisterial splendor across the sky, changing colors in the expanding light of day.  And of course, there was the full moon.

No bugs, no rain, perfect temperature, sublime symphony.  I had to sit in the chair by the pond for a while and just be in it.







































































 (editorial note added on May 30th:  For the last three days I have been an hour off on my posted sunrise times.  It was not 5:55, but 4:55 this morning.  I've corrected it now, which will make it confusing for future readers.  But I'll leave the rest as is.  Call it a permanent record of my vagaries and silliness.)

2 comments:

  1. I saw "Julie & Julia" last night and wondered if you had seen it before you started your blog.

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  2. http://ayearofgettingup.blogspot.com/2010/03/julie-and-julia.html

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