First Fall Sunrise!

As the sun moves steadily south at this time of year, and the time of sunrise gets steadily later, we reach a time when I'm actually up (and awake enough) to see the sunrise.  The days have gotten a lot shorter, the temperatures lower (4° this morning - 38°F) and early fall is definitely here.

This wasn't a very colourful sunrise, but the cloud pattern was very interesting, and it didn't happen til nearly 7.45, in contrast to summer's much earlier sunrises.

I always take my sunrise pictures from the same place, our upstairs balcony (which never gets used for anything else), and I mark the sunrises over the next 6 months by the pattern of  trees on the horizon.  So you may see a number of sunrise pictures in the future that feature the trees along our fencerow, as the sunrise location on the horizon moves further south.

We also had the first sunset I've seen in many months a few weeks ago.  There's a hill to our west, so we miss the actual sun setting by a good hour here, but every now and then we get a nice sunset if it spreads across the sky.

I may have missed a few over the summer of course; the bugs have stayed around all summer, so I'm not outside much in late evening this year, but this one was great.

The highlight was when the sun-lit clouds reached the moon in the southern sky in a nice juxtaposition for a photo.

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