Another Sunrise

This was the view southeast from our house at 7.50 this morning, of the colours of another spectacular sunrise splashed across the Moray Firth's sky.

There is something very uplifting, very inspirational about a glorious sunrise. It marks the beginning of a new day, of new hope and opportunity, so....

....this view across Kilchoan Bay, taken in October 2009, led to the creation of A Kilchoan Diary, a blog I kept for some eight of the twenty-one years we lived in that small crofting community before we left Ardnamurchan.

Not that all notable sunrises have to be in gory reds, oranges and yellows. This picture, taken in Tanzania looking out across the Pemba Channel in the direction of Zanzibar, holds immense threat: yet, just visible on the horizon at its centre, the sail of a small, frail fishing boat, an ngalowa, is just visible, representing, perhaps, hope, courage and endurance under the sky's grim threat.

By contrast, this picture, again looking across Kilchoan Bay and taken in January 2013, offers an example of the calm that can be found in a sunrise. The view is almost frozen, yet two ducks can be seen at bottom right, paddling out across, and about to break the mirror stillness of the sea.
 
I feel so fortunate that four of the houses in which I have lived have faced southeast to east, and have been blessed with a view of the sunrise. Perhaps my love of sunrises comes from the fact that the Tanganyika hospital in which I was born was sited on the coast, facing east. Perhaps there was a glorious sunrise the day I was born.