sunrise

Last Sunday Tom and I got up early ( actually a little latter then usual for us) about 5:30am to catch the sunrise. We threw on our clothes and headed for hirer ground, which is out where the pastures are. We new the sunrise was for 7:13am, we were there by 6:43. We climbed up into the back of the truck ( well I didn't exactly climb, remember when we used to jump in and out of Dads' truck, those days are gone). Anyway, it was a foggy morning and the fog just drifted threw the pastures giving everything a quiet serene feeling. You could hear the cattle in the pastures with their deep throated mooing fisrt here then over there as if they were calling out to each other. As the fog moved and shifted cattle would appear and disappear in and out of the fog like sentinals waiting for something important to happen. You could here the bugs in high pitched tones and see the birds in flight looking for that first meal of the day. We now realize we have no coffee oops! Oh well no time for that, we want to photograph this event if we can figure out the camera in time. Time is running out. It gets light out before the sun actually appears on the horizon. One minute nothing the next minute the sun just pops up. A small red arc of light that looks like the top of a finger nail. It takes us by surprise. It climbs higher and higher. Within fifteen minutes a big red ball hangs suspended above the earth. We are busy clicking away on the camera in awe of an event that happens every day.