13 September 2011

Sunsets are always beautiful, but it's the 1 billion different sunrises everyday that are just as amazing, that most of the world probably never gets to see, or never pays attention enough to notice. A sunrise, to me, means not only a new day, but new opportunities.
I don't think that a lot of people stop to watch a sunrise. They're far too busy blocking it with a sun-shade, their sunglasses, and busily driving to work. I enjoy watching them and looking at all of the cool things that they offer our eyes and minds to take in. I like the way that the contrails glow with the pink and orange colors. I always wonder where those planes are going, they're so high up and are traveling so fast. The way that the light streams through the leaves and branches of the trees and is sectioned into rays by the early morning fog is so cool. It's like something out of a painting that shouldn't be real...like a dream. The fog dancing on top of the water on the lakes nearby and the river is fun to look at and drive by on the way to school. None of this lasts for very long though, soon the sun is up high in the sky and it starts to get warmer outside. The fog lifts and the bouncing colors are gone, just streams of light that blend together to the average color tone of daylight.

Sunsets would have to be my favorite to watch. They're almost like sunrises, but yet are different in so many ways. The colors are deeper...richer, and you can watch as the sun disappears over the horizon line, fading away. You can feel the warmth fade away too, as the light does, over the horizon.
I wonder what's it's like to watch a sunset or sunrise from a hot air balloon? Perspective is everything, not only mentally, but physically too. I wonder if being higher up in the air would make a sunset or sunrise look different, or prettier than it already does?