asakiyume: (feathers on the line)
We went to a lookout above the Quabbin Reservoir to face east for the first day of the new year. The first light, many minutes before sunrise, lit up a crack in the baleful sky.

New Years sunrise 2024 648 (2)

As it grew lighter, the waning gibbous moon glowed brighter.

New Years  2024 gibbous moon 655 am

Wakanomori turned his back on the colors to admire the moon.

S against presunrise sky 2024 Jan 1 656 am

The sun was as discreet as a Heian lady, just the hems of her brightness peeking from beneath the clouds' screens.

New Years sunrise 2024 710 am peak pink

There was evidence fairies had been at the lookout earlier, enjoying takeout.

fairy takeout New Years morning 2024

I posted that picture on Instagram, and [personal profile] amaebi said she had her doubts about whether the L&Ms were part of the takeout. [personal profile] wakanomori agreed: he thinks fairies probably roll their own. [personal profile] amaebi suggested sweet clover and Corsican mint, which I told her was a combination I could be induced to try.

Come find me
smoking sweet clover and mint
at the lookout point
asakiyume: (feathers on the line)






Yesterday appeared in a blaze of color
red sky in the morning

today was golden gauze

misty sun



proud

Jan. 16th, 2015 10:31 am
asakiyume: (cloud snow)






The sky was like this, this morning:





I had to drive the healing angel to school and as we were driving, the sun was rising. First just the bright curve of its back, glowing intensely, not quite blindingly pink-gold. Then more of it, almost all of it, and something about the cold day, maybe, but I thought I could see the swimming surface of it, the ebb and flow of the flaming waves on the surface of it, those incredible convectional currents. It was so BIG and so BRIGHT and appearing in our sky, and I felt my chest swell, like

That's my star, you guys! That one right there, coming up into the sky, blooming like a molten rose in a foundry, that's my star!

It's a bragging right I share with everyone on Planet Earth and, indeed, the solar system, though by the time you get to the Oort cloud I guess the proto-comets are like, yeah, whatever; it's just another bright dot to me. (They think that until they pull in close, but then, with their hair streaming back in the solar wind, they change their minds, I bet.)

Seriously, though. It was the feeling you have when your parent/sibling/child/partner does something awesome, and you feel all bright inside because you're connected to that person.


asakiyume: (bluebird)






Yesterday at dusk, two wood thrushes were competing to see who could claim to have the best voice in the darkening trees:



After listening, I closed my eyes a while, then opened them, and the sun was rising.

morning sun through trees

That's life in the land of hours and days!


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