Most of the sunrises and sunsets are very pretty, sometimes they are much, much more . . .
Purchase Prints or License | An Alaska Airlines jet reaches a light pillar at the moment the Sun breaks the horizon.
Bright days are slowly returning to us as the dark dreariness fades away. Soon we will be driving to work in the Sun, but for now I’ll take the opportunity to witness sights like this. The gorgeous light stays around for hours! A few minutes before the Sun actually came up I walked over by the greenhouse on the hill to take pictures of the light pillar it was creating from just below the horizon:
Purchase Prints or License | The light pillar showed a few minutes before sunrise.
Purchase Prints or License | Here’s the same jet right after take-off with the Alaska Range in the background and everything highlighted in pink.
Purchase Prints or License | And then the Sun was up!
It’s also important to mind the little things in light like this:
Purchase Prints or License | Berries hang off a tree while the pink edged clouds make a nice background.
Purchase Prints or License | A few leaves stuck out the winter.
And when you turn your back to the Sun:
