November 2, 2008 Sunrise
Finally – a day at home. I crave these days, I need these days. Introverts need quiet, reflective time to recharge, to find their inner balance. I plan a day of work, but work I love. I’ve cleaned and organized my workroom, and I yearn to get busy with my day’s goals.
Sunset was weird this morning – it had to get beyond the thick bands of cloud on the horizon before it could show – more like 6:20 than 6’ish.
Are those November colors, or what?
Here is the weather at 0800:
And here is the five day forecast (For those of you not living here, this is heaven in Kuwait):
Have a great day, Kuwait! 🙂
All Saints Sunrise
Good Morning, Kuwait, and a gorgeous day it is out there. It is a mere 59°F / 15°C out there early this morning, and the high today is only expected to get to:
Truly, sweater weather on this the first day of November. 😉
I had those anxiety dreams this morning, that got me out of bed early on a day when I have a lot to do, and need to be places at certain times. One dream kept recurring – I was supposed to be flying somewhere, and I kept packing my suitcase – leisurely – when I should have been leaving for the drive to the airport. The phone rings and it is the airport asking if I am planning on making the flight, and I say “yes!” even though the flight is supposed to leave in 35 minutes and the drive to the airport is about 30 minutes and I am not packed!
Think I am feeling unprepared about something? Think I am maybe worried about my relaxed attitude when I have obligations to meet?
Here is the drama of the sky just before dawn this morning – no, it wasn’t all that early, dawn is coming earlier and earlier every day:
Those lights are one of the big freighters heading south.
Here is the sunrise:
Just look at those autumn colors! WOW. Not a cloud in the sky, barely a wisp of haze on the horizon – this is going to be another of those gorgeous days in Kuwait that we have all been dreaming of during the hot, steamy days of summer. Gooood Morning, Kuwait!
Halloween Sunrise
Boooooooooooooooooo! Good Morning, Kuwait, and a chilly autumn Halloween morning it is:
How COOOOOOOOOL is that? Sweater weather?
The sun rose all golden and smokey looking this morning, there are strings of fishing dhows on the horizon and life is sweet:
Have a great day, Kuwait.
Sunrise After Rain, 30 October 2008
It’s a glorious morning. The sky is clear all the way to the horizon, there was huge surf last night, so if you comb the beaches – today is YOUR day. 🙂
Weather Underground: Kuwait says we have a more serious chance of rain in just five days:
Meanwhile – today is a glorious day. I thought I had posted this first thing this morning, LOL, guess not. Have a gr8 day, Q8!
Not-Stormy Sunrise
When I got up this morning, the sky was thick with clouds, and I thought to myself “I will call it Stormy Sunrise,” but by the time the sun came over the horizon, the clouds had dissipated, and it was an entirely different sunset.
Did anyone else hear a loud clap of thunder last night? I heard it, but it was when I was too much asleep to care enough to get up and watch. If there was an electrical storm, I missed it. I can see that we have had some slight sprinkles, though, recently, because I have drop marks on our windows.
Here is what the today and tomorrow are supposed to look like:
Rosy Dawn with Chills
Wooo HOOO, Kuwait! Look at this temperature at 7 ayem!
And then look at the humidity and the dew point! No wonder we all feel a little clammy!
The dawn is moving further and further to the south, and this morning was briefly rosy as the sun struggled to break through the thick haze:
When my husband and I prayed together this morning, we prayed to be able to keep our minds and hearts on the things that are really important, and not the things of the world. As financial empires crumble, we want to be thankful for all the riches with which we have been blessed – our marriage, our son and his wife, our families – for good jobs, and good friends – and we pray to be safe on the roads.
Even the Qatteri Cat likes morning prayer time. 🙂
Barely There Sunrise
This morning, I was up, looking out my window-on-the-world, hanging on to my coffee for dear live at 0600 in the morning, Qatteri Cat was with me, purring and making those little kitten noises that mean “Hiya, Mom, any chance you’ll pour me some fresh cat food?” and I have my camera . . . but there is no sunrise. There is light, but whatever is hanging over Kuwait is SO thick that the sun can’t break through, not for half an hour after sunrise.
This is what it looks like when you can finally see the sun:
What is really scary – we are BREATHING that stuff!
It is 72°F / 22°C at 0700 (Wooo Hoooo!) and althought it doesn’t feel so humid today, we have the possibility of rain later on this week. And look at those temperatures! Get out the long underwear!
Sunrise 26 October 2008
There were days last summer when I wondered why I was doing sunrises; they all looked the same. Now, with October, wonderful October, not only is every day different, but every five minutes is different.
The temperature is a mere 75 °F / 24 °C and it is Mostly Cloudy – wooo Hooo! If we were in the Pacific Northwest, I would say it looks like rain. Out on my balcony this morning, it smelled like rain coming. 🙂
Sailors Take Warning!
I grew up on the sea – or at least on an inland outpost of the sea. There was a verse we learned early in our lives:
Red sky at night – Sailor’s delight,
Red sky at morning – Sailors take warning!
Here is the sky this morning:
Half an hour later, there was a sunrise, but I laughed when I saw how dim the sun was, and how magnificent the reflections were off the clouds – who would think the sun could be a bit player in a sunrise?
Have a GREAT day, Q8!
Blessing Friday Sunrise
So you might think it a curse to have to get up early on a Friday morning, but I started falling asleep around nine last night, and by 5:30 this morning, I had enough sleep. 🙂 The Qatteri Cat and I were just sitting, watching the necklace of fishing boats off the coast, their lights twinkling, watching the light change. There are too many sunrises this morning – it is the most glorious morning! Thank God for these amazing clouds!
This is “Not-the-Sunrise.” It is in the opposite direction from the sunrise; the sun can’t break through the clouds but there is this high pink reflection on far-away clouds:
This is the sun just beginning penetrate the low laying clouds on the horizon:
This is because it is so beautiful and I can’t stop myself, I love the outlining on the clouds:
This is because the birds flew in and how often does that happen at just the right time?
And this one – same day, same sunrise – is taken an hour later. Looks like a totally different day, doesn’t it?
Who would ever guess that this girl from the rainy Pacific Northwest would get such a thrill out of the return of rainclouds?
The five day forecast shows scattered clouds, lowering temperatures (Wooo HOOOOO!) but . . . where did the chance of rain go?
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