Greeting the Sunrise

Dear Diary,

This is the view out of my upstairs window this morning at 7am.  The colors were wonderful and in my rapture I nearly forgot my camera!  A lot of melting yesterday and today will be even warmer.  The snow pack has dropped quite a bit but the piles have a long way to go and they are hinting at another big storm for this weekend but no matter.


The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His Heaven;
All's right with the world!

-  Robert Browning

ps. "The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life."
-  Doddridge