What can I say… I’m more of a sunsetter.
All my sunrises
To rise and sigh to sunrise,
to size rays with your eyes.
A sizzling rise from the sun
where there was none.
To be awake for the birth
of one more day is worth
rising with the sun
at least eight times.
Written upon realisation that I have had exactly eight sunrise photo shoots since I arrived in Italy. Next month will be six years.
Here they are: one is from my parents’ bedroom in Ljubljana, Slovenia, one is from the roof of our home, and all the others are from our garden here is south Tuscany.
How often I went back to sleep immediately after? The sun is not telling.
In response to Patrick Jennings’ Pic and a Word Challenge #178: Sunrise
These are a treat for the eyes! 💖
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Thank you so much, Paula! ❤
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I love sunrises, and rarely miss one. Yours are beautiful.
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Thank you, Viking Daughter. 🙂 Good to see you here. It’s not strange for me to get up at 5 am but instead of going out to view this miracle I stay in and read or write and deal with photos. I can imagine how many sunrise photos you must have!
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Reading and writing are perfect activities for quiet early mornings 🙂 I hope you’re having a wonderful new week.
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Oh my, these are really spectacular.
I have lots of sunset shots, but few sunrises. I think the last one was taken when I was younger, I mean much much younger.
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Thank you, Bojana. As I say, I have exactly eight sunrise photo shoots in 6 years… Even when I wake up at 5 – and I do because amore leaves for work then – I rarely go out. And our house is turned to the north so that I don’t have immediate sunlight in the mornings.
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5? Jesus. I wake up so early only when I have insomnia.
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…no words…. …just beautiful
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Danke, Markus! 🙂
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You have more than I do! Once I’m up, I surely enjoy sunrise, but I am rarely up at that hour. And have no plans to change that!
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Hey, Lexi, happy spring to you! Sunrises will manage without our presence, I hope. 😉
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I love your poem! So perfect to describe the joy of a sunrise! All the colors you captured are so beautiful! I love that “gentle” glow on the horizon right before she comes up! Like a drumroll. And you mom looks like a very talented ikebana-ist! What a pretty splash of brightness in itself!
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Thank you so much, Lindsay. 🙂 She makes one every time she and dad come over and I love that. Soon it will be one year since they were here last! But I’ll go to see them in May.
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What a lovely tradition!!
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Gorgeous! 🌄🌅🌇
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Thank you, Elena! Glad to see you here!
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