A week or so ago I had just finished a tough workout at my big box gym and was heading back to my car around sunrise. I looked up and saw the most beautiful and massive pink and purple ripples stretched out from the edge of the horizon to where I was standing. It was so impressive that I had to stop a moment in the middle of the parking lot and soak it in. Then, within 2 minutes, the clouds had shifted and everything returned to a depressing gray.

Beauty like this is everywhere, but it sure can be fleeting.

Parking lot sky needs more light, telephone, and electric poles in it which obscures the pretty sky.

I use to live next to a dead volcano (it's not as cool as it sounds) which had trails leading up from the base to the top. Anyway, I was really into running back then and I decided one day that I would wake up before the sun rose. I wanted to climb to the top to greet the sunrise. I wake up at like 4am and head out. It's freezing, I'm in shorts and thermals. All I have is a flashlight but otherwise it's pitch black as I'm sprinting through bush, over creeks, and around blind turns. My fear response had never been stronger in my life. I finally get to the hill that leads up to the top of the volcano and hit the side at full speed. Not wanting to check for animals or look into any of the numerous caves around me. The trail follows the edge of the volcano all the way up. One side was bush and darkness, the other open space and nothingness. As I'm coming around the top my heart is trying to excape my chest, my hands are frozen into fists and my legs are made of lead. Finally, I get to the rocky top where other people have left offerings and the like. Then I look out east to the mountains in the far distance. The sun just barely peaks over and light shoots out in every direction. In that moment I knew my ancestors. I knew the earth. I saw the SUN and it was GOD... Spent the rest of the morning on on my back enjoying the open sky

Funny, but mostly true due to timing. You have a lot more sunsets and sunrises outside of work and home than you do on holiday or with the time you are able to take out in nature.

That's why it's good to always have a camera with you, never know when you're gonna get a good picture. That's why it's good phones have capable cameras these days.

Honestly my bigger problem is when I go downstairs without my phone, and then I see a red fox running around and playing in my backyard being very photogenic, or a squirrel standing on my windowsill posing for the camera. I run upstairs to get my phone, run back downstairs, and it's gone.

A little touch of beauty everywhere, rather than concentrated in a few locations. Seems reasonable to me.

That rusted sedan really ties the scenery together

This is always Target on Bald Hill in Rhode Island