Sunrise Commute

I often leave as the sun is rising, and in the winter I return when it is setting or after it has set. There have been many days when I've seen the moon rise and set with the sunrise and sunset. Today, as I turned the sweeping corner along the road by the airport, I was stunned by the field of sky before me.

I parked briefly in the hangar driveway to take two pictures, one on a normal auto setting and the other on the special scene setting for foliage. You'd have thought I had witnessed the coming and going of the life star at the exactly the same moment.

In truth, I witnessed only the rising today. It was, like a morning glory, a loud silent shout of purple and pink, unfolding in petal.