another rising sun series: a crack at trying to express the feeling

Sunrise on Newboro Lake

Come with me through the broadening light

To watch the rising sun.

Come with me through moments made warmer-

Made warmer

By our beacon.

Made warmer

By the squawk of a heron,

The call of crows,

The screech of gulls,

The softer reflections.

Be with me through this, and you shall never

Be alone.

another rising sun series

With a heron thrown in for good luck

As the sun rises I see different clouds, different hues, different things. Within the soundless rising, midst the guttural squawk of a heron, the screech of gulls, and the bossy calling of  crows, are experiences beyond measure. 

I hope you enjoy our walk to the Lock almost as much as Alanagh, Molly, Joshua, and I did.

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My mind was full of cobwebs and I was in a fog

I found it strange this morning that the lake had little fog compared to the fog bound fields as we headed north east. 

I like looking at spider webs and I like trying to get shots of them.  The roadsides today were  festooned with thousands of these works of art, bringing marvel to the morning. 

Spiders have several spinnerets at the base of their abdomen: usually three. They have seven known glands which produce a thread for a special purpose. All spiders have some of these glands but no spider has all of them.

Orb weaving spiders are nocturnal, spinning their web in the night and they usually take them down during the day by eating all but the baseline. 

The nightly weavers start with one sticky thread and they carefully walk over it several times, each time adding strength. Then they make a Y.  Next, the radials are added. Once the radials are complete the spider returns to the centre and adds about five circular threads once again adding strength to the silky structure. 

In order for the spider to move around quickly on the web,  addition of spirals of non sticky, evenly spaced, circular threads assist in the completion the lair.  When the web is complete these non sticky threads are removed. From the outside in, the spider adds sticky spiral threads. Finally the spider will chew off the initial three centre spirals and wait for mealtime. I think it is one of nature’s truly neat things that the spaces between each spiral are directly proportional to the distance from the tip of the spider’s leg to its spinners. Spiders use their bodies as measuring and spacing devices!

Orb web

Cob web

In the fog

Female Goldfinch, non-breeding plumage

Jet headed east  just at sunrise

Elm at sunrise

Maple and sunrise

Oak

Two for one

There are some days I just CAN"T get enough of. This is one. After the sun rose this morning, the day seemed far too special not to go to The Narrows just to see “what’s up.”
Up was an Eastern Song Sparrow checking us out, curious horses coming to see us, sheep eyeing us,

old tractors looking good in the sun, bales of hay rounded up, maples by cedar rails, monarchs on dandelions, geraniums at the Narrows, dabbling female mallards, ring billed gulls and cruisers headed south. Beauty so much beauty. Soon I MUST attend to the garden.

Eastern Song Sparrow

Female Mallard

Ring-billed gull

Sunrise

At lakeshore before the break of day, after the first birdsong falls silent and before the geese natter again. That is the time. The perfect moments when nothing is rushed and all is hushed as the light spreads colour, and you can be nowhere else but there.