I was up at the buttcrack of dawn this morning and in the car before 7:30am driving east just in time to see the most amazing sunrise. The sun looked like a gigantic, vivid, orange egg yolk and it illuminated every single thing it touched. Cars, buildings, the water on the St. John's River. I was spellbound staring at it while I whizzed through morning traffic in the 28 degree freezing cold. It made me think of that scene from American Beauty where he films the plastic bag floating in the breeze and was crying about how beautiful it was. Because the rising sun shining off of the miles and miles of office parks, skyscrapers, cars lined up in traffic along the interstate and highway signs was just so beautiful and inspiring.
Then this evening I took Piper and Sammie out for a long walk. We walked to Boone Park, which is a great park that our old house use to back up to. It runs the length of about 15 city blocks and in the evenings the trees are full of hooting owls and there is a cute little stream that runs along the whole park. At the end of the park is a great playground, which apparently is the place to be in the evenings if you are a yuppie Avondale mom. We hung out there and Piper played on the slides and I tied Sammie up to the fence and every.single.kid at the playground came up to him and was petting him, loving on him, feeding him woodchips. I was so proud of that old dog. He sat there patiently putting up with the kids all over him when all he really wanted to do was run like crazy across the park and smell everything. We started home around 6pm and as I headed west to our house the sun was just starting to set and it was, again, the most brilliant, bright sun. The color it was giving off had no name. Within seconds the entire sky was illuminated BRIGHT, technicolor orange and it was just so gorgeous. I enjoyed the sunset the whole walk home and Piper chilled in her stroller, not saying a word (which is VERY rare), and I like to think she was enjoying the nice end to the day as well. It's not often I see the sun rise and set in one day (I'm not a morning person!), but I really felt so honored to have witnessed it today.
2 comments:
a little bonus to the dreaded drive to class! how was class (first day, prob boring)?
i could use some pix from st george; of piper; of the bellews. are you reading anything? i just finished a book clair recommended and it was super interesting. "the expected one". grab it if you have some time. reading "The Widow Clicquot" now. interesting too.
I tried reading that but got bored with it. Maybe I didnt try hard enough. I just read the help in like 24.5 hours. It was really good.
Wan
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