Watch the Sunrise -- Thankful Thursday

My Thankful Thursday post has to be about getting to see the sunrise this morning and the beautiful reds and pinks swirled together like watercolors in the sky. It didn't last long today as the clouds overwhelmed the lights and muted it in blue. Still it is the beginning of a new day, and how can that be bad?

Here's one of my favorite Big Star songs, Watch the Sunrise.

Sunrise Over the Hay Bales

I really felt like I was at the right place at the right time and actually had my camera with me yesterday. The first photo is my favorite, but I couldn't resist posting all of them in a slideshow below.

We had baled about 80 round bales in the field before stopping the day before when the baler's chain broke. We went back to go get the baler first thing the next morning to bring it in to repair it when I snapped these. None have been edited, they are all natural pictures.

Sunrise Over Hay Bales

Sunrise Over The Corn Field

Wordless Wed: Silo and the Sunrise

Sunrise Sunset

One of the joys of being a dairy farmer is getting up at the crack of dawn.  What, you mean you don't consider that a joy?  I actually get up before the crack, when the sky is black with only creamy clouds floating by or the stars and moon shining down.














Getting up early means seeing that crack form and wait as the sun sends a few rays at a time across the hills and trees and into the sky.

Look at what God did.

It really does not get old with me to see the sunrise; I actually look forward to seeing it every day.

My wife might say that it helps being a dairy farmer if you are a morning person as she pushes the snooze button for the upteenth time.

I have to admit that sunsets are nice, too.


A sign that the day is almost done.  Maybe a sign of a job well done.