I don’t have words adequate to this moment. Moments like this have stumped me before, made me mute. This time I will stumble through my thoughts, post my images, and hope something of what I’m feeling shines through.
It’s not just the fascination with how the light and color change moment to moment as the sun rises. It’s how the mass of humanity, among them the wealthiest and most powerful of the world, arrayed along the Upper East Side of New York City, are just a thin sliver along the horizon. They are made insignificant by the sky in its dance with the rising sun. This event which happens every day; it is a fundamental fact of our existence.
Its mystery abides.
It still strikes awe in my heart.
Misty Ridge Musings 
TURNER.
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My goodness, Ed. You flatter me! But I will claim one similarly with Turner. We share a fascination with the endless variation of light and color in the sky (and sea).
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beautiful sequence!
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Thank you, Don. I was mesmerized by the sunrise this morning. I had to choose just four shots from maybe 20.
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A truly magnificent mystery beautifully captured. How small we are …
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Yes. But there is something “big” in our response to the mystery, don’t you think?
And thank you.
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Yes you are right, there is something huge in our response, thankfully. Well some of us… Others are blind to the mystery. Sadly, they can only see dollar signs. We are indeed privileged.
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Or even more sadly, for those who can see no dollar signs: remembering the impoverished who struggle to see the sky. Yours is a gentle reminder of how privileged some of us are to be able to be thankful – and it is thus but one of our responsibilities, to help All see the Mystery, for we are all One in The Mystery.
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So beautiful!
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so beautiful and great moments of a day… Thank you dear Nadia, have a nice day, Love, nia
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Thank you, sweet Nia. I send you peace and love and more beauty than you can bear. Nadia
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Amazing perspective, Nadia. I am just now reminded of a line from the movie Joe Versus the Volcano. The scene has the character Patricia and Joe talking together. In the scene Patricia speaks the following: “My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.” YES! 🙂
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I give thanks for each moment when I am truly awake, Greg. Thanks for this quote.
And funny, I had thought of posting one more photo of what the view looked like after the sun was fully risen–the sky completely blank as though nothing had just transpired. For anyone waking up too late, they would never have know what a light show they had missed.
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What magnificence! Beautifully captured.
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Thank you so much. I was so lucky to experience it. I’m glad I could communicate just a little of the beauty of the moment.
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Wow, stunning! So beautifull, what an amazing world we live in and what an amazing technique we have to capture it and what an amazing artist you are for showing it to us.
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