Wait... there's a FIVE in the morning?!

For the first time in a long time, I saw the sunrise today. Fortunately, I'm one of those people who gets to sleep in until 7 or 8 and so I don't see too many sunrises. When you have to be up at five and you're all sleepy and cranky, something about a sunrise makes it all worth while. There's something exciting about the gradually lightening sky, waiting until the first sliver of sun is visable on the horizon. Best of all, I think, is when the light hits the mountains first. The light hits the windows of all the cabins up there and it reflects bright orange. Like dozens of mirrors all over the mountain. It's all pinks and oranges and the snow looks like orange tang powder. When you put that against the pale pale blue of the sky, it's an amazing thing. I was driving so I had to try pretty hard not to crash into the guard rails but how do you not look at something like that? I wanted to pull over and take pictures, but I kinda had to go to work. Figured that took priority. If someone would ask me why I love living here, I would just tell them to watch the mountains at sunrise. Then I think they'd get it.