Sunrise

This picture was taken at 8.22 this morning, looking southeast. Sunrise was twenty minutes earlier, and this would have been down and to the left of where it's pictured so, in a few days' time, the point where the sun breaks the horizon will be obscured by the trees. In some ways that's good, because it means that we're beginning to climb out of winter, but in others it's not so good. Principal amongst these is the we'll not see these colourful sunrises again until late November as they'll be progressively obscured by the trees; and colour is important in wintertime, for it cheers us up.

I was born just south of the equator. There, there was little seasonal movement of the point of sunrise nor, to any extent, any variation in the time of sunrise. There were seasons but they were more to do with the weather: two rainy seasons and two dry.

I prefer the equatorial arrangement, mainly because it doesn't include a winter. The human race wasn't designed for the cold.