Like the First Morning

It was a late night with an overtime hockey game in which my team lost although the series is tied. The forecast was for rain in the morning, which would mean heavy cloud cover, so there would likely not be a sunrise. After some dithering, I set my alarm anyway.

And then, I had great trouble getting to sleep. I think I was still awake at 1 o'clock, which did not altogether increase my enthusiasm for an early shoot.

Regardless, my silly self rolled over at 3:57, three minutes before the alarm was set to rouse me, and I was able to turn it off before it might wake Sue as well.

I still wasn't sure about getting up. I checked the sky and saw that there were low clouds that would obscure the rising sun. But I also saw some spaces above the low cloud bank, which could result in a photo op.

Even though I wasn't certain about what I should do, once the idea was in my head, I wasn't about to get back to sleep anyway. I hauled the old bod out of bed, got dressed, made coffee, and headed out.

I drove down a laneway by which farmers could access their fields. It was marked as a road, so I wasn't trespassing.

So it was that I was able to catch some photos of the first rising of the sun after the solstice which occurred close to the previous midnight. I didn't see the sun exactly, but I did see its effects.

I mentioned previously that I would experiment with inserting myself into the frame more. I think this is an appropriate solstice greeting. Don't you agree?

Off to the side, I spied an interesting cloud formation, so I shifted the camera.

Note: all three original photos have a little more light and detail
on the ground part than what is visible at Blogger resolution.

It would also be nice to photograph the solstice sunset, but as I write this on Monday morning, it is overcast. If I do manage to get a photograph, I will post it below. If you see a blank space, you'll know that it didn't work out.