Marquette Lighthouse at 8:13 a.m.

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Sunrise Marquette Lighthouse, Marquette, MI

Sunrise 32 of 365

Sunrise time:
8:13: Azimuth:
114° ↑: Did the sun rise:
Yes: Was the sun visible:
Yes

Location

Marquette Lighthouse, Marquette, MI

46° 32' 45" N -87° 22' 41" W

Exposure

Focal Length:
85mm: Aperture:
f/22.0: Shutter Speed:
1/200: ISO:
100: Camera:
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV: Lens:
EF85mm f/1.8 USM

Musings

Preparing for the next day has never been a skill of mine. I actually thought, by going to bed a little earlier last night I was preparing for a good morning to follow. Awake early, I pressed snooze once. Then back to it. With no direction of where to go I chose Marquette’s South Beach. The sun was just beginning to break the horizon. I rush down, running through knee deep snow drifts, turn on my camera… and it’s dead.

Twice! That’s twice that it’s happened in the last two weeks. I gave it a full charge a week ago, I figured leaving it in my car over with overnight lows of -22º would be just fine, right?

Well, I managed to take a photo on my phone through Delilah’s viewfinder. Then I rushed back through the knee deep snow drifts, a single onlooker probably laughing at me, headed back home and plugged my battery in for no longer than sixty seconds. It was enough juice to get back and take a few dozen shots. My hope is to produce a series of photos are are taken within ten minutes of the sun breaking the horizon. That will have to slide today. And maybe I’ll drink a few less lattes this month and buy an extra camera battery.

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Daily Fruit dated February 1

Daily Fruit was a daily journal I kept from October 2001 through July 2015. The idea was "a few words a day keeps the psychiatrist away". Not sure that worked, but hey, they are meant to be read for face value.

2002
He's here.
2003
32.
2003
Piano is the way to go out.
2003
Star wars with some crystal clear water and piano and sax.
2003
Parents, enough said, not really, they need more respect...times 10 times 3 times 1 billion, +75, and -3 for grounding me.
2004
Shake up the world.
2005
For once, i will saunter as if i were young again.
2005
It won't he the beginning, nor the end,
2005
Just some subtle time in the lost middle.
2005
If by chance i find love, i will follow it.
2005
And if by opposite, that which is hate,
2005
I will stretch forward a helping hand.
2006
You can schedule your love making appointments on every third wednedsay of the month.
2007
The first day of the best month of the year... and i'm sick, just great.
2009
Chest rubs are even more effective than mint chip ice cream.
2009
My casualness vs. their professionalism, i feel that's often a disconnect.
2009
Why are twist ties used for loafs of bread and those tiny plastic things used for hamburger and hot dog buns?
2010
I may cash it all in at once.
2011
Flannel is the way to a Yooper's heart.
2011
However, heavy hearts are no way to start it.
2011
My favorite month has arrived, hoping to use it as a catalyst for the rest of the year.
2011
There is a direct correlation between my happiness and the amount of fresh snow on the ground.
2012
Februawesome.
2012
I'm even more Februhairy than last year.
2013
There is lots to put ketchup on.
2013
He's a man of constant sorrow, and so what if he is?
2014
Self-inflicted guilt trips are all the rage.
2015
Winter is my second best friend.
2015
Embrace it before it embraces you.