YESTERDAY'S BLOG

It's 6:09 a.m. and Junior and Patrick are in bed.

The sun is just beginning to foreshadow it's arrival with a slight orange haze reaching up about ten degrees over the horizon. The moon is in the east also, a very bright waning crescent sliver, the morning star behind her. Legal Twilight is dawning. My coffee/green tea is hot and steamy. It's getting lighter now, and the sky is a pale blue, with just a few dark clouds.

OK, it's 6:20 a.m. est, civil twilght--thirty minutes till sun-up. The moon and mOrning star are losing their luster. 13% of the moon is illuminated.

My dear wife is lying next to me snoring gently. Oh, no that's the DOG snoring gently. My wife broke her marriage vows and abandoned me AND the dog, and lied her greedy arse off in open court to get more of my money.

Anyway, it grows lighter by the moment. All good vampires should be snuggled deep inside their coffins for the night. The other creatures of the night are bedding down also. The birds are beginning their first morning peeps.

It's light enuff to read outside now and a little nippy, about forty five degrees. The birds are in full force now, putting up their usual morning racket. Still, it seems sun-up is fifteen minutes away.

Venus is barely visble now, and the moon is dull. The dark cluds are turning to crimson as the sun struggles to emerge.

Now all the clouds in the sky, even in the west are tinged with a very pale pink. One half of our resident nesting pair of sparrow hawks swoops across the yard, doing his morning scree-scree! A crow caws in the clear morning air from miles away.

The morning dew starts to turn to ground fog in the distance across the cornfields. Venus has pulled a blanket of clouds over herself and the moon is barely visible. The pink is giving way to brightness. Any minute now the life giver of the solar system will emerge.

Ah, here she comes, first a glimpse of orange, then slowly rising, a flaming ball of bright orange, big and round, Oh, too bright to look at for more than an instant. UP, UP. Takes about a minute and a half to fully emerge, still orange and round, but now too bright to look at, and slowly changing to it's normal high altitude yellow.

All in all, not a spectacular sunrise, but not too shabby...

And so another day on this green and white and blue planet that we have grown accustomed to calling home, begins. Day 21,233 begins on the third rock from that sun.

-TR-