January 11: Sunrise on snow
Jan. 11th, 2011 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverspentI woke to a gorgeous morning. The sky was clear and the sun was already streaming through the trees. The number of times in my life I have seen the sun rise over snow is ridiculously few, so of course I slipped into a pair of sneakers, pulled on a hat, and rushed outside.
The light was almost a bronze color and oh so clear. The shadows it cast made the surface of the snow look entirely different from yesterday, when it was cloudy and gray. But my favorite thing was that the stiff breeze was blowing tiny crystals of snow through the air, and the sun was lighting them up like dust motes or cottonwood seeds flying in spring.
The light was almost a bronze color and oh so clear. The shadows it cast made the surface of the snow look entirely different from yesterday, when it was cloudy and gray. But my favorite thing was that the stiff breeze was blowing tiny crystals of snow through the air, and the sun was lighting them up like dust motes or cottonwood seeds flying in spring.