Picture of the day - April 29, 2007

A Spooky Southwestern Virginia Sunrise

Photo courtesy of Bob Cook. Over the years I have featured a number of spectacular sunrises as "Pictures of the Day", and this one is among my favorites. Cheria's uncle Bob Cook captured this wonderful image early yesterday morning as a veil of fog partially obscured the rising sun just enough to cast the foreground into a deep, spooky shadow. If you're one of those folks who tend to get up around sunrise, you have no doubt witnessed the gradual transformation from night to day. First, you begin to see just a very slight glow on the eastern horizon. Then, as the minutes pass by, the glow quickly gets brighter and brighter until the eastern sky becomes painted with one or more spectacular colors as the sun makes its way above the horizon. At some point during that process, there will be just enough light to create eerie silhouettes of objects in the foreground...and so it was with today's picture. I'm often up and at 'em when the sun comes up, and I love watching the sky and landscape come to life with the dawn of a new day. You just never know exactly what you'll see when God begins to paint his next early morning masterpiece, but I always know that it won't be boring - and every new day He gives us is a true gift!   Visit the POTD Archives for previous "Pictures Of The Day"!     Submit a photo of your own!            Why I publish the "Picture of the Day"