The skies were clear this morning as the sun rose, and the temperatures have finally equalized enough that we no longer have the thick early morning fog rising off the Hudson River. For a few brief moments everything just glowed with the warmth of the early morning light. I grabbed my camera but as I went outside my battery died and I had to run in again. I only managed one photo before the light suddenly shifted, and you can, in fact see the beginnings of that shift along the bottom of the photo and along the edge of the opposite shore.
That lovely autumnal color is as much the light as the colors on the trees. Most of the trees are actually bare, which you will see if you look closely. The colors have not been good this year, which is a sad kind of fairwell. There has been very little red, the leaves mostly just turning yellow then brown and falling off the trees. There has been far too much rain. The ground has been saturated for weeks and never really dries out. Trees don't any better with overwatering than houseplants.
Still, it is nice to have one last autumnal photograph to remember the old place by. We have decided that we will be moving in December. The new house should be ready the very end of the month or beginning of January and we should really be down there before closing anyway. So there will be a few weeks in temporary housing. I'm not ready, but I really won't be until it is done, and I already feel like our life is in a kind of limbo. Might as well get things moving along.
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10 responses to “Sunrise Glow”
What a beautiful sight, captured in your lovely photograph. Thank you for writing about life and its attendant ins and outs.
What a lovely scene!
Good to hear, that the approximate date for the moving is set.
Now you can focus on all the new and exciting.
Enjoy the weekend!
That’s a beautiful photograph to remember your house by the Hudson. I totally understand the moving limbo and all the feelings that go along with moving.
Beautiful. Elegiac, even.
You write so beautifully about your life, moments like this one, capturing a last autumnal photo of the home you are leaving.
It is probably just as well to move in December.
I can understand your melancholy – you have had a beautiful life in that beautiful place. I can only say that I have truly high hopes for the lifestyle of Tennessee. It too is a beautiful place, in a totally different way. Having family around is a tremendous gift you will quickly come to appreciate more than you imagine, I am sure. But it’s hard to go through these transitions (especially before they have happened). xo
Thank you Diane!
Mette, it seems that there is no time to relax, but knowing I have a deadline is calming.
Carolyn, Im so happy to have one last fall photograph.
LPC, really? Elegiac? Well thank you.
Susan, yes it is time.
Kristin, yes I think it is time for Tennessee. I dont like the between spaces of life very much though; I;m much more of a just get on with it kind of girl.
Lovely. Melancholy and Fall seem partners, and when you add an impending move from a place you have lived in with love, well . . .
But having made the decision must be a relief, and you will soon be settling into a new home. I do hope for you that you’re able to find some downtime soon.
Thank you for a glimpse of fall color – Living in Florida for 2 years now, that is the one thing I miss most from PA.
December! That will come before you know it. Yes, there is something about fall and endings- and also about January and beginnings! Be well, dear Mardel.