A Glorious Sunrise!

This morning:

The most beautiful yellow-orange in the glowing sunrise! Perfect. The perfect shade between.

Indigos; bright, neon-peach; calming cyan and a pastel yellow... Smoky indigo clouds and near-purple up above...

That beautiful, calming and uplifting intertwining of that wonderful pale yellow at the horizon, and the pale cyan fading into pale blue...

The absolute glory of those peach-rose-orange streaks, gleaming in the light...orange-yellow stark, proud, confident, yet angelic...

In the sunrise and sunset we see colours that are so hard to recreate ourselves! Unique blendings - two-tone or three-tone colours that we cannot simply divide into dull sections of Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.

Will there be a time when we redefine the rainbow? Teach our children true chromaticism and colour description? People are amazed thaty daughter, at under 2, could distinguish purple from pink; turquoise from blue... Yet I see it as a gift to her. That knowledge, at an age where every word we taught her stayed marvellously in her memory without need for repetition, was a gift to her! The gift of knowledge, of description, of poetry in words! The gift of discernment, for, if we know the words to describe something, we are more able to see and remember it! Maybe. The word is the death of the thing? The word is also the creation of the thing. The weaving of the magic! The sprinkling of the glitter, the icing on the cake.

Below, here on earth we have green. Purple, violet, pink. Plain orange. Pure, clearly defined colours in our flowers. To our eyes unless we look further... When the sun begins to rise or set, our flowers, grass and hillsides, seas, are imbued with a tint, a new colour!

And deeper, what colours do we see beneath our feet, in the bosom of the earth?

Unique to our glorious caverns and earthly rocks  (and maybe on a few fish and birds etc. ;-) ) is gold, silver, peacock ore - the glorious metallic shades! Colours in rocks and gemstones are transparent, or mottled, or striped! The flash of a peacock's feather is a sight glorious and mystical to behold. A kingfisher, a mallard, a magpie... Shining in the sun!

The beautiful thing about a sunrise is that it grows and grows in splendour and light! One cannot help but feel sad when, at sunset, that glowing beauty disappears below the horizon, saying its final farewell! Although of course, it gives way to stars, moon, planets, maybe even aurora borealis...

Hello sunrise! Hello world! I'm glad to meet you today! Hello Derby!

I think I'm going to do more Winter early rising, watching the sunset, going for a run, recording bird song and notating it...Watching the beautiful frosts and ice formed!