The New Year Breaks
In the last couple of years I have made it a point to capture the January 1st sunrise and this year I managed to capture sunset as well. It’s nice to wake up to a new year dawn albeit a moody dawn this year.
It was a little too cold to wait out in the garden so I went out every 30 minutes. The new year starts with a gold swash across a blue sky.
Then blue sky by 8 am.
I don’t remember who said that we ‘can’t appreciate the light without the darkness.’ After hours of daylight, darkness comes to visit at 5pm accompanied by a sliver of moon.
Nature is true to it course: sunrise and sunset everyday…never to fail. If we could only apply this knowledge, this lesson, to life, our society, humanity.
Petals and Wings 
The bare branches make beautiful silhouettes too 🙂
Your sunrise and sunset photos are much better.
Nooooo! I strike it lucky occasionally 🙂
Lovely, so peaceful.
It’s much nicer in spring, birds sing when it’s still dark as the sun slowly comes up.
Nature is a strong teacher. Photographing the first sunrise of the year is a great tradition.
I agree with you there. Still much to learn after all these years. I wanted to photograph the sunset on the last day of the year too, but I had to work.