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The sun is beginning to rise later each day.  The kids would leave for school at dawn and I would grab the camera to catch the morning delight in peace and quiet.  With all of the last minute hustle to get out of the door on time, the sun is beginning to shine just as they are departing.  I am glad they no longer wake to pitch black and I am happy to see daylight coming thru my bedroom window.  Middle of summer, 6 am is a fine time for watching the planets and stars put on a show but I much prefer waking to the chance of a day of clear skies.  Needless to say, living in countrybumpkin northeast USA, there has not been much sunshine, only grey skies lending to the dismal thought of another snowy day.  I keep telling myself how much of a hearty person I am to live here and not to take warm summer days for granted, but I do. 

We snuck away to Florida for two weeks in Feb.  I got caught in a rain storm and didn't care.  I was walking the beach alone and could see the onset of the darkening clouds and thought I had a few minutes to make it back to the condo.  I was wrong.  The first sprinkles turned into an insant downpour and really I didn't care.  I threw sensibility to the wind and walked in the pouring warm rain and like a child, held out my arms to embrace the drops dancing on my skin and the blades of grass getting stuck between and underneath my sandles. My hair was a mess, and I was soaked to the bone and did not care in the least.

I made it under the overhang of our condo where an older man was standing wearing an ipod.  How is it someone's Grandpa can figure out an ipod and I can not?  He was concerned if I was okay.  Not realizing I lived there he mentioned I could get a free towel at the nearby Hotel.  I must have looked like a homeless person who was a nutball.  Probably he thought- just another stupid tourist.

Most of the trip was sunny and warm.  I caught a few sunsets on film.  I caught a few raindrops and realized walking in the rain isn't so bad after all.

Enjoy the sunsets.  I sure did. Note photo five- there is a rainbow!  Waking up everyday is the pot of gold.