Sunrise....

...at the beach!

My body clock loves the morning and the rest of me doesn't mind getting up so early when I'm blessed to witness the beauty of simple sunrise!  

Taken on the beach of Wildwood Crest with my iPhone!  







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"message"

Messages are everywhere.  
On our phones.  In our mailboxes. In a card from a friend. In a note on a table. 
I like the more subliminal messages sometimes.
Today, especially, is one of those days. 
As I added my picture to the page on our Facebook group page, I said "This was my message from God this morning that I'd see the sun, if only for a little while and in between rain showers this afternoon.'
Life is like that sometimes.  
We don't see the sun for a long time, but it's there.  Sometimes, it's  between the rain showers and sometimes it's after the monsoon. 
A friend of mine is experiencing a monsoon right now.  I hope she knows that at some point the sun will peak out from behind the clouds again.



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"signature"

My signature photo for 2012 was the sunrise with my cell phone.  Since so many people enjoyed seeing the sunrise without actually having to leave their houses, or beds for that matter, I thought I would continue the trend in 2013.


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A blog circle of photographers from all over the world, both amateur and professional alike, sharing their interpretations of a common theme.  At the bottom of each post, click the link for the next photographer until you come full circle, back here to my blog.

"peaceful"

  As I was decorating the tree earlier this week, I came across this guy.  It's something that my husband has had since he was a kid.  It's kind of funny how things get reinvented.
The elf-on-the-shelf shenanigans have been posted on just about every social website I use.
This elf though has been sitting peacefully in my tree every year for the past thirty years and hasn't done a mischievous thing yet this year, either.  




 
And, just because one of my most favorite times of the day brings me the most peaceful moments, I thought I'd share a picture taken with my cell phone a little bit before 7AM this morning (Thursday).  I haven't processed this at all.  Well, with the exception of my watermark!


Now to see what kind of  peaceful images the other two photographers in my group found, start here with Faye Kingston, Miramichi, NB Photographer 

Fifty-two on Friday-Week Forty three!

 A blog circle of photographers from all over the world, both amateur and professional alike, sharing their interpretations of a common theme.  At the bottom of each post, click the link for the next photographer until you come full circle, back here to my blog.

"darkness"

I try to start every day with a walk.  I get out of bed, put my sweats and sneakers on, grab the dog, his leash, my pepper spray (for both my protection and in case of another dog that mine may not like) and, of course, my cell phone.  I really like to walk before work, which means leaving the house by 6:30.  The problem with walking at 6:30 during the fall, winter and early spring months, is that it's dark when I start out.  The one truly good thing about starting out in the dark is that I get to watch the sunrise.  We've had some gorgeous sunrises in the last few weeks.  I love  when the sky is full of color...pinks, oranges, blues and the whites of the clouds and just before you actually get to see the rays of the sun. It's what I like to call, the edge of darkness.  Both of these are taken with my cell phone and are unedited.  
Sometimes the best camera is the one you have with you!




  To see what the rest of the circle found for "darkness" start here with Stacy Vitallo of D'Lara Photography, Downer's Grove, IL