I get up early, 5 am or 6 am and in winter it’s still very dark at that time. Over the past three weeks when I got up it was quite light. However, with daylight savings time it is now dark again at 5 am and 6 am and that is fine with me because I get to see the sunrise every morning and admire how the earth changes its axis.
Today’s sunrise was very clear with pink and orange and blue gray in the sky with long stringy dingy clouds struggling to pass by.
Yesterday’s sunrise was light gray with tinges of blue and cloudy and breezy cold with rain sprinkles all day.
One sunrise last week was made for vampires; foggy, quiet, dense, wispy white fog that is thick and cold. Since I live across the street from a very old cemetery I watched carefully to see if vampires might escape from the decaying mausoleums with broken windows. I didn’t see any but I did see burgundy and green gray geese flying by honking at one another.
The smaller birds are still sleeping at sunrise. Brown sparrows, black with gold speckle starlings, royal blue shiny crows, golden brown peregrine falcons, multi colored pigeons and white sea gulls do not venture out of their hiding places until there is first light. This is when they gather on the overhead wires outside my window chirping for their breakfast.
I tear up some white bread and my two cats are at the ready to watch and hope to catch a bird. My cement windowsill attracts quite a few brave birds while others will only eat from the bread on the sidewalk.
Tomorrow is the Spring Equinox, the yellow sun will rise about 7 am and set around 7 pm which is quite nice for fragrant blooming spring flowers and sun showers, umbrellas being swept around in rain and fresh green buds popping off trees and bushes. We are heading to summer with sunrises that will be earlier and sunsets that are later.
As for me I will rise early and glimpse the sky with its rainbow of colors and welcome another warm, bird chirping, cup of tea with milk, full of life day.
3.20.2021
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