Sunday morning I got inspired at a quarter to five in the morning to go take some pictures. I had heard that it was going to be warm during the day and that often means that there is not very much fog in the morning. So when I woke up, awaken by nothing other than perhaps inspiration, I got out of bed to take a look at the sky. It was clear and a few stars were still visible. It seemed as though it would be a good day.
I threw on some clothes grabbed my cap packed up my camera gear(I think for future reference I should keep that packed just in case) snatched an apple and some water from the fridge and headed out in the wee hours of the morning to see if I could capture some light.
I headed out to Creekside Terrace to a point that I knew has a pretty good view of Salinas and the Valley and tried to find an ideal spot to capture the sun as it came out from over the hills. I waited around for a while and tried not to be worried about the rustling coming from the bushes around me.
And then it happened. The sun started to appear and the magical sky started to take the stage. Not a cloud in the sky and only a little fog in the valley. I captured the first few moments of the visible daylight and then hopped around trying to get as many different angles of the show as I could.
I think that I love sunrises a little bit more than I sunsets. Sunsets are beautiful, don't get me wrong, but there is just something inspiring in a sunrise. Maybe it the extra effort that it takes for me to get out of bed and experience it or maybe it's just a reminder of the hope that we all have. That even when the world seems dark that the sun comes each and every morning. I felt like church had started a little bit earlier that morning.
It was another reminder when I went to 'church', as we are in a summer study in Psalms. The first verse was from Psalm 19:1"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the works of His hands."
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