
Posts Tagged ‘sunrise’
Wordless Wednesday…the morning I left
Posted: August 17, 2022 in Wordless WednesdayTags: Arizona, Nature, sunrise, travel, vacation, Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday…morning
Posted: June 29, 2022 in NatureTags: McDowell Forest Preserve, morning, morning light, Naperville Illinois, Nature, sunrise

Good morning
Posted: April 18, 2022 in Nature, PersonalTags: Arizona, Arizona sunrise, dawn, dentist, grandchildren, morning, Nature, personal, sunrise
Another weekend in the review mirror, this one filled with Easter joy. I hope you enjoyed your weekend whether you celebrated the resurrection or not. Taking a morning walk is my favorite way to start the day or the week. The highlight of our week will be traveling to California this coming weekend to meet our new grandson and first grandchild. I also have a dentist appointment later in the week. I always like getting my teeth cleaned because they feel so good afterwards and I rarely have any other issues. Do you dread the dentist or not mind? What are you looking forward to this week?

Silent Sunday…Arizona sunrise
Posted: December 26, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021Tags: Arizona, Arizona sunrise, bright, Life in Colour, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: kaleidoscope, sunrise
Morning gold
Posted: September 13, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021Tags: Arizona, desert morning, gold, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: gold, morning, morning in the desert, sunrise
Let’s start the week of right with some morning gold from outside my parents’ house in Arizona. Always good to start the week on a beautiful note (even if the week really begins on Sunday.)
“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
― Roman Payne
Time for sailors to take warning
Posted: June 25, 2021 in Six-Word SaturdayTags: #SWS, Arizona sunrise, morning, red sky in the morning sailors take warning, Six-Word Saturday, sunrise
Monday walk…Marching into spring
Posted: March 1, 2021 in Monday walkTags: blooming plants, flowers, Jo's Monday Walk, Monday walk, Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, spring, spring in the desert, sunrise
Spring in the desert isn’t exactly like spring in most other places. There are no swaths of wildflowers, no green grass everywhere. Spring comes early too, already on its way at the end of February/beginning of March, when it can be not much above freezing at night and by late afternoon be almost 80F. There are flowers, but quite often they’re on plants with thorns that will stab you if you aren’t careful. Still, they are flowers. The sunrise has moved from after 7 am during the winter to before 6 am and we’re off to the Preserve to seek out some signs of spring for Jo’s Monday walk (whenever the next one is.) We’ll see a variety of colors and even a hint of two of softness but always be careful because desert can so easily become dessert. 🙂



These flowers are actually quite tiny, but they’re abundant.

And these aren’t large either.
Happy Monday and welcome to March!
for Jo’s Monday Walk
My Lord, what a morning!
Posted: February 10, 2021 in Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021Tags: color, colors21, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: yellow, Nature, Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, sunrise, yellow
Lighten up
Posted: January 25, 2021 in squaresTags: Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, square, SquareUp, SquareUp challenge, sunrise
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #122: The sun will come out tomorrow
Posted: November 7, 2020 in Lens-Artist Photo ChallengeTags: Arizona, Lens-Artist Photo Challenge, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #122: The sun will come out tomorrow, sun, sunrise, sunrise quotes, Wyoming
Morning is my favorite time of day to be out and about, so many of my walks include a sunrise. I love the feeling of anticipation, of the new days, of possibilities.
Sunrise looks spectacular in the nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular!
― Mehmet Murat ildan
Leaving our cabin in Wyoming in 2017, I had to pause on my way down the mountin to catch a spectacular sunrise the morning of the eclipse. At the time of the actual eclipse, I was in the Badlands.

Sometimes sunrise doesn’t look the way we usually visualize it.
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”
― Norman Maclean, “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Sometimes morning is full of promise, leading you into the day.
At sunrise, the blue sky paints herself with gold colors and joyfully dances to the music of a morning breeze.
― Debasish Mridha

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
― Jeannette Walls, “Half Broke Horses”

Where we live now in the desert, sunrise is generally sudden. The sun isn’t there…and then it is. There isn’t much to block its rising.
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