It’s about 7 in the morning and I am talking to Rich as he gets ready for work when I see a bit of pink showing through the crack between the shade and the window in our bedroom. I race over to look and it’s yet again another gorgeous fabulous fantastic sunrise! The heavens declare the GLORY OF GOD! (It seems so right to listen to Handel’s Messiah as I type this.) So bye bye dear husband as I grab the camera and frisk around on the cold cold porch in my socks (I finally had to give up and get my slippers.)
Whenever I see a sunrise I think of this passage from a book I read:
“Outside the barn the morning was gray, and as I came up the path I was surprised to see my mother, wrapped in a shawl, standing outside the kitchen door. “Hurry!” she called to me. “It’s changing every second!”
The barn behind me was black against a rosiness in the east, but it was not the sky she wished me to see. It was the evanescent colors, the lights and shadows subtly changing down the length of the valley at the coming of the dawn. We stood and watched them silently till the rosy sky faded to the color of water, and sunshine came yellow across the fields. A new day was there, a day as miraculous and fresh as though it were the first ever dawned, and a chill little wind that ran before it went westward, followed by a promise of warmth.”
Rose Wilder Lane
Good to be Home 
Beautiful!! You have such an eye and heart to be able to recognize God’s gifts to us in the little things.
Thank you for your sweetness regarding my dad and all that. I truly appreciate the friends I’ve made here.
This is absolutely beautiful… the pictures are breath taking.
I was just sharing with a friend how my sisters and I love each other’s friends. Joanna and Janet are always saying how they love my friends and I say the same to them. We have the most amazing women in our lives. I think you are such a beautiful woman. I dont’ say that to make you feel uncomfortable or to give you a big head (hee, hee) but rather, I saw this to let you know how much I admire you and how you have inspired me. I know God gets the glory. I read this post and then re-read back through some of your posts and what has been impressed upon me is your love and radiant joy for where you are at in life. You LOVE being a wife and mom. Reading your blog convicts me if I am feeling like complaining. You make homemaking look like fun! You are creative and real. Praise the Lord. thank you, Shanda! 🙂
You have some very pretty sunrises =]
Beautiful pictures once again, Shan. Love the Rose Wilder Lane quote.
Lovely, lovely pictures. The quote is wonderful ~ loved all the Wilder books ~ mother’s and daughter’s both. I just love it when authors actually paint pictures with their words.
The Lord has certainly given you an amazing gift for photography! You inspire me to take more pictures! 🙂 We are doing fine here, after a very busy weekend (see post). Hope you are well!
Beautiful, Shanda. I can imagine you frantically trying to get a picture of God’s beauty while trying to keep your body warm from the bitter cold. 🙂 I am sure God had a smile on His face this morning. I am sure that it touched His heart that you recognize His creation, His beauty, and you take time to enjoy it.
Beeeeautiful! I love sunrises, but I usually miss them because I like to sleep late!But I catch the sunsets! Have a great day.love in Christ
Wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing them and the wonderful passage as well.
RYC: It is great that you have 5 children and have made the choice to be at home with them. What a sweet blessing.
That is beautiful!!!!
Gorgeous!!!Blessings,Angie
I love looking at your site. You are an amazing photographer . . . your photos capture real emotion in your topic & then bring out an emotion in your viewers. You are an amazing writer . . . again, your thoughts bring out such emotional reactions in all of us.
What a gift from God!
Great pictures!
BEAUTIFUL, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL! my daughter has the same response to sunrise, it’s one of the reasons she loves camping in the desert