Sunrise or Sunset?

SeaBreeze

SeaBreeze

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Although both are very beautiful to watch, which is your favorite? I think mine is sunset. Although I've seen many lovely sunrises, I'm usually not awake at that time to appreciate them all. Here's a pic I took of a sunset over the mountains, the photo doesn't do it justice, as it was really spectacular at the time. Anyone have a sunset or sunrise photo to share? :sentimental:

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I've seen my share of both, but I prefer sunrises. Something about the promise of a new day, or a chance to right old wrongs, or some BS like that ...

Actually, since I'm a polyphasic sleeper I get my choice of which one to watch, or even both. The only problem with that plan is that I'm an indoor creature these last few years - the great outdoors terrifies me! - and I don't really have a good vantage point to see them, at least not like I did when I was living in Florida and California.

Still, I have my memories, and generally the sunrises were more memorable than the sunsets. Not always as much color, granted, but my energy was always higher at that time of day so I associate them with good things.
 
Great outdoors, unplugged for a few weeks...works wonders! Explore the forest with a special friend, beats the heck out of the staying inside. :)
 

SeaBreeze said:
Great outdoors, unplugged for a few weeks...works wonders! Explore the forest with a special friend, beats the heck out of the staying inside. :)
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I'm sure it does, but unfortunately it doesn't pay the bills ... :(

This "special friend" that you speak of - I've heard this term before, somewhere, perhaps in my youth, but I no longer recognize it. Is this something that happens these days?
 
In my case my special friend is my hubby, but it could've been any close friend with similar interests. You don't make money to pay bills on vacation, but it's worth one if you can swing it, IMO.
 
SeaBreeze said:
In my case my special friend is my hubby, but it could've been any close friend with similar interests. You don't make money to pay bills on vacation, but it's worth one if you can swing it, IMO.
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Interesting. First "special friend" and now this "vacation" word ...

Just as a point of reference - my last "vacation" was 16 years ago when I was married. We took a week to drive to Florida from Pennsylvania, stopping at all the odd places along the way. Same on the way back, after 5 days in Key West. So, a little over two weeks in the last 16 years. Now I work seven days a week - a vacation is not in my immediate future.

So I guess I won't be (to use yet another of your unusual terms) "swinging it" any time soon. :eek:
 
Grackles Birds 1.jpgThis is the only sunset photo I have. This was taken in central Texas a couple of weeks ago, at a Walmart parking lot. I just happened to have my camera in my car. I didn't take the photo for the colorful sky but for the birds in the trees. These birds are called Grackles and at this time of year, they will gather together in the evenings and perch on trees and telephone wires. The Grackles are harmless, except for making a mess under the trees and making a loud noise. When I see the Grackles gather together like in this photo, they remind me of the Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds.

Sunrises are my favorite as I am a morning person.
 
Grackles! I haven't heard anyone mention grackles for the last 40 years! :D

We had them in NY when I was growing up and I remember them being the bullies of the block, especially with the sparrows. The bluejays, well, they'd hold their own, as would the full-fledged crows, but anything else the grackles would intimidate and harass mercilessly. Even the squirrels - poor things would be dive-bombed by the grackles when they were trying to grab their nuts.

The seed nuts, I mean. :eek:

And they were always in packs (flocks?) - like most bullies they always travelled in numbers. Never saw a solitary grackle.
 
Elzee said:
This is the only sunset photo I have. This was taken in central Texas a couple of weeks ago, at a Walmart parking lot. I just happened to have my camera in my car. I didn't take the photo for the colorful sky but for the birds in the trees. These birds are called Grackles and at this time of year, they will gather together in the evenings and perch on trees and telephone wires. The Grackles are harmless, except for making a mess under the trees and making a loud noise. When I see the Grackles gather together like in this photo, they remind me of the Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds.

Sunrises are my favorite as I am a morning person.
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Good photo Elzee! I can't believe all those birds, VERY much like the movie. :eek:
 
Sunrises for me, live on the east coast so sunsets are rare. Great for photographs using the Golden hour where light constantly changes.
 
Of course, I love both. But, my preference is SUNRISE for so many reasons. It's the beginning of a new day!

Paddling out into Momma Ocean for some pre-dawn waves with stars in the sky is beyond description. As the sky slowly begins to lighten, things come to life and all my friends; the sea lions, otters, gulls, dolphins get busy with their day's various responsibilities. Now, some of my favorite spots are situated such that one is riding directly toward the eastern horizon and once the sun actually rises, ya drop in, turn and get blinded. That and a few dawn patrol stragglers send me heading home.

Walking along the cliff, I often turn around to stop and be grateful for another beautiful morning. Once, a woman on her morning walk, stop to ask me if the waves weren't good and if that's why I was walking home so early. I had to laugh and tell her, "Heck, I've been out for two hours!"
 
Actually, if I may wax philosophical for a moment, a sunrise and a sunset cannot exist independently - they are co-dependent, if you will. One requires the other.

Therefore, I cannot love one without equally loving the other - to do so would disrupt the Tao.

.... and I AIN'T gonna' be disruptin' no Tao today!
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"So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death." -- The Floyd of Pinkness
 
Knightofalbion said:
Sunrise - a new day, new opportunities...

Though a sunset is never so beautiful as when you've lived the passing day as you should of....
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i agree with sunrise bringing a new day as I love watching the morning come alive and a sunset is the perfect ending to a good day. (But, I bristle at "should". Just a little neurotic button I love to protect. Every single time someone says, "You should . . ." I wanna slap 'em...! It's a problem with authority thing...)

My love of sunrise over sunset might be best described as seeing a pristine stretch of sand below the cliffs as the receding tide has left it rather than a beach trampled with a million footprints of the interlopers. Was sitting at one of my favorite spots during a minus tide one fall afternoon, looking out to sea, waiting for a wave and as one came along and I was spinning around to catch it and was shocked at the crowd of clueless trampling the reef! So much nicer in the morning with no one around. (MY BEACH MY WAVE GO HOME)
 
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