Sunset/Sunrise
One of the things I've always loved to do at this house is to take pictures of sunsets. When we first moved here I would take sunset pictures from my room and send them to friends hoping to instill a great jealousy that I not only had a view from my window, but awe inspriring view through a HUGE picture window looking out over the water.
I no longer attempt to instill jealousy, but I do still love to take sunset pictures. This one is from last week just as we were sitting down to that fabulous salmon dinner that dad mentioned already. Even a fabulous dinner has to wait for the sunset pictures! But as you can see, it was well worth the wait!
This morning, Dani, Martin, James and I took a walk around Lake Padden. The sun was just starting to rise in the sky and the lake was quiet and peaceful.
Posted by Jeni at April 21, 2005 05:45 PM
Jeni,
My college was on the bluffs high above the Mississippi River and looked out over all of Missouri. There was a small group of us who would gather, nightly, at the same spot to witness the sunsets. We would whistle and cheer God on, and sometimes rate the sunsets on a 1-10 scale. Often we would thank and sing a lullaby to the sun as it slid over the horizen.
I had forgotten about that until a few weeks ago. I was driving home from a day at Children's hospital and decided to take Chuckanut home. As I drove along - all 3 kids zonked out and snoring behind me - I just HAD to pull over and watch once again. As I stood there, I remembered and enjoyed again the peace and quiet of that time of day (now replaced by the "suicide hours" of supper time that is life with young kids - oh, just a few more years.....). It's really stunning, isn't it? So I risked waking them by going back in for the camera and took a few more shots in case I didn't already have enough sunsets in my photo logs (heehee). They didn't wake and I stood there for about 20 minutes -- just breathing and watching - pulling in as much as I could through my eyes to my soul. It was heaven.
Thanks for your photo and reminder.
Meril
Jeni,
My college was on the bluffs high above the Mississippi River and looked out over all of Missouri. There was a small group of us who would gather, nightly, at the same spot to witness the sunsets. We would whistle and cheer God on, and sometimes rate the sunsets on a 1-10 scale. Often we would thank and sing a lullaby to the sun as it slid over the horizen.
I had forgotten about that until a few weeks ago. I was driving home from a day at Children's hospital and decided to take Chuckanut home. As I drove along - all 3 kids zonked out and snoring behind me - I just HAD to pull over and watch once again. As I stood there, I remembered and enjoyed again the peace and quiet of that time of day (now replaced by the "suicide hours" of supper time that is life with young kids - oh, just a few more years.....). It's really stunning, isn't it? So I risked waking them by going back in for the camera and took a few more shots in case I didn't already have enough sunsets in my photo logs (heehee). They didn't wake and I stood there for about 20 minutes -- just breathing and watching - pulling in as much as I could through my eyes to my soul. It was heaven.
Thanks for your photo and reminder.
Posted by: Meril at April 21, 2005 09:29 PMMeril