Sunrise

On Sunday October 17 I got up at 5:30 in the morning.  I spent the evening before cleaning up the cottage.  I hate to come back to a dirty place so I always make sure and tidy it up before I leave.  This time, because of my extended stay, part of the time with the girls there, the cleaning required was a little more extensive.  I did some laundry and the dishes.  I swept and mopped the floor, and vacuumed the rugs.  I emptied the ash from the woodstove and took out all the garbage.  By the time I finished all of this on Saturday, it was too late to head home to the city.  So I got up early and hit the road the next morning.

When I got up it was clear and once again there was a tapestry of a billion stars in the dark sky.  The temperature was +10C, but there was a wind gusting out of the west.  I had a shower and some breakfast and loaded all my stuff into the truck.  I pulled out of the driveway, shortly after 7:00AM and it was still dark.  As I got closer and closer to Rocky Mountain House, the wind dropped off, along with the temperature.  But there was a glorious sunrise and I watched the colors intensify and shift as the sun broke closer and closer to the horizon.