Friday, October 27, 2006

36 Minutes in the Griot's Life

I saw a magnificent sunrise this morning. Words cannot describe it. Even these photographs do not do it justice.

The show began at 7:05, when I first noticed the sun rising in the east.

When I returned to the living room at 7 :26, the sky was beginning to transform itself.

Seven minutes later -- at 7:33 -- the sky had begun the metamorphosis from black to orange.


What a change a minute made. By 7:34, the sky had turned into a peach bellini.

At 7:35, the skyline had transformed itself to a living version of a 19th Century English landscape painting.



Within another minute, the sky had continued its fluid dance of colours and shadows and the cloud layers parted and reformed.



By 7:40, the sky was a sea of oranges and yellows.


When I left to go to work at 7:41, the sky had transformed itself yet again, and all the blues and greys had departed.

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