Each morning and each evening we are given the gifts of sunrise and sunset,
but they are especially full of nature’s song when you live by the ocean.
I greet each day with soft eyes, sometimes placing my hand on my heart. Sunrises will do that to me.
With each new day, we are offered a cessation of anxiety–if we take in the show.
Here is an offered gift from Nature telling us to be calm.
Moon set, early morning.
Sunrise means a pink sky and a pink ocean. How can you not be happy?
Lovely view from the beach to the mountains through the palms.
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On the East Cape, Baja Sur, the sun rises over the ocean.
It’s hard to wrap my mind around that fact, as I’m originally from Southern California where the sun rises over the mountains.
But, it does indeed rise over the ocean on the East Cape.
It’s a glorious, full show of color with the morning birds looking for breakfast.
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When the day leaves us,
I experience an overwhelming joy
that almost makes my heart ache as
I watch the sun fall into the ocean.
And then there’s the green flash.
We see it all the time from our deck. We see it more as a green glow, but the photos below were caught with our GoPro.
It does, indeed, appear as a flash in these shots.
We had it set to shoot every five seconds.
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These are from different days. A green flash? Believe.
Things I learned about the green flash:
- REFRACTION: the bending of rays of light in passing from one medium to another (e.g., air to water)
- Green flashes are by-products of the large varieties in astronomical refraction near the horizon.
- Green flashes occur because the atmosphere can cause the light from the sun to separate out into different colors.
In my Baja world,
join me as
I take a deep breath
and
savor the moments of sunrise and sunset.
