I have to admit, I really do like walking through this town before sunrise.
The time is quiet. I-95 is only barely audible. The trains aren't necessarily here and if they are here, I can pretend they aren't.
When I am not talking to Rack the McNab SuperDog (TM), on a day like this with almost no breezes, all I am hearing are our footsteps and the ringing in my ears.
Thanks, Mom, all that aspirin you fed me left me a present.
I get to stargaze, and while I am looking up at the skies, sometimes I get to indulge myself. This morning, since I am still trying to adjust to the time change to standard time, I lay in bed an extra half hour or so. When I do finally get out there, the skies were no longer completely dark. More of a purple.
Stepping outside, I let Rack walk to the front of the property so he could water His Rock. I almost always look up and noticed that there were enough clouds out there to make things interesting. Not quite yet, but later.
Rounding the block, Rack told me that he wanted a Short Walk by herding me one way. A mere four tenths of a mile today. Even though I have to break him of that habit, I could use the time to do other things.
We went down a residential street that had a good view of the skies toward the beach.
That is a good view once I stopped looking at what Rack was sniffing at. I never did figure that out.
The skies were getting brighter and the sun was rising above the Bahamas at this point. They really aren't that far away from me. When that happens, we get the undersides of our clouds lit up by the distant orange rays that are just beginning to peak up over the horizon.
Or so I tell myself.
Walking around the block I hear the neighbor ask "What-cha lookin' at?"
"It's a really pretty sunrise. I'll have to try to get a good picture of it!"
I may have ringing in my ears, but I have a very stable hand when it comes to photography.
"Good luck to you! I have pools to take care of!" As he went off looking for his pool scoop for the back of his pickup truck.
I walked down the block with my neck craned over my shoulder saying to nobody in particular "Yep! I'm going to get that picture".
I got a wag out of Rack for that. He does that often. Good, I have an excuse for talking and I'm not really talking to myself.
With light breezes and a pleasant temperature, this is why people live here.
It's also why the Snowbirds come down here and drive stupidly on my roads. Since it is currently snowing in the big cities up North like Philadelphia and will be in Boston, I'm thinking that the airplanes will be all full up very shortly.
The time is quiet. I-95 is only barely audible. The trains aren't necessarily here and if they are here, I can pretend they aren't.
When I am not talking to Rack the McNab SuperDog (TM), on a day like this with almost no breezes, all I am hearing are our footsteps and the ringing in my ears.
Thanks, Mom, all that aspirin you fed me left me a present.
I get to stargaze, and while I am looking up at the skies, sometimes I get to indulge myself. This morning, since I am still trying to adjust to the time change to standard time, I lay in bed an extra half hour or so. When I do finally get out there, the skies were no longer completely dark. More of a purple.
Stepping outside, I let Rack walk to the front of the property so he could water His Rock. I almost always look up and noticed that there were enough clouds out there to make things interesting. Not quite yet, but later.
Rounding the block, Rack told me that he wanted a Short Walk by herding me one way. A mere four tenths of a mile today. Even though I have to break him of that habit, I could use the time to do other things.
We went down a residential street that had a good view of the skies toward the beach.
That is a good view once I stopped looking at what Rack was sniffing at. I never did figure that out.
The skies were getting brighter and the sun was rising above the Bahamas at this point. They really aren't that far away from me. When that happens, we get the undersides of our clouds lit up by the distant orange rays that are just beginning to peak up over the horizon.
Or so I tell myself.
Walking around the block I hear the neighbor ask "What-cha lookin' at?"
"It's a really pretty sunrise. I'll have to try to get a good picture of it!"
I may have ringing in my ears, but I have a very stable hand when it comes to photography.
"Good luck to you! I have pools to take care of!" As he went off looking for his pool scoop for the back of his pickup truck.
I walked down the block with my neck craned over my shoulder saying to nobody in particular "Yep! I'm going to get that picture".
I got a wag out of Rack for that. He does that often. Good, I have an excuse for talking and I'm not really talking to myself.
With light breezes and a pleasant temperature, this is why people live here.
It's also why the Snowbirds come down here and drive stupidly on my roads. Since it is currently snowing in the big cities up North like Philadelphia and will be in Boston, I'm thinking that the airplanes will be all full up very shortly.
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