Sunrise or sunset?

[Nightshade]

Depends on when and where I guess, Sunsets are all very cool and that especially if you get a very nice day and a sea amuybe some dolphins, or maybe just a summer day with clouds and then you get those almost stained windowy pillars of light thing going on. But there is nothing liki esunrise in the winter over frosty misty meadows and everything starts to glisen and shine and the birds all start to wake up but the world is still all muffled and quiet, it is hosts of angels singing beautiful, and in some cities and towns ( the kind that sleep obviously!) I can almost never risist starting to resite worswrth's View from Westminster Bridge

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth like a garment wear

The beauty of the morning: silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky,
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

Course the only time I got to go to London my spoilsport family wouldnt let me go actaully stand on the bridge and see what the view actually is like
And dont even get me started on surise in the desert .....

[librarius_qui]

sunset

Sunrise certainly feels better, aesthetically, but I think I learned to like the end of things rather than their beginning ... (A wise man of the past said so ... son of a king, and king after his father.)

As well as, when the sun's setting, it's time to be getting back home!

[Virgil]

sunset

Sunrise certainly feels better, aesthetically, but I think I learned to like the end of things rather than their beginning ... (A wise man of the past said so ... son of a king, and king after his father.)

As well as, when the sun's setting, it's time to be getting back home!

Well, that's an interesting perspective Libri. I like the thought.

[motherhubbard]

I chose both.

Sunset is nice, but I think I’ll enjoy it more when the kids are grown. Right now it’s just busy around here in the evening. I do love a summer sunset. I guess I have a little more time to appreciate it.

Sunrise is nice, too. The chickens are up and the house is quiet. That first cup of coffee is great!

[Emil Miller]

I get up at 4:40 AM, showered, dressed, and out the door at 5:35 AM. I have about an hour commute to work, and my work day starts at 6:45 AM.

4.40am! That's positively heroic.

[kasie]

Well, it's not a case of getting out of London so much as getting out of bed. I tend to go to bed late and sleep late, my favourite time for sleeping being between 6 am-10am, so there would be little chance of my seeing sunrise wherever I lived.

Although I waxed somewhat lyrical over our dawns, I'm actually a night-owl, too, BB - I've been known to go to bed with the Dawn Chorus in summer. I always had trouble getting up when I had to be in work by 8.30am, no matter what time I had been in bed the night before! When I suggested getting out of London, I was thinking of your visiting a place that had more sky visible and less cloud.

[Pewnut]

Summer sunset

[Emil Miller]

Although I waxed somewhat lyrical over our dawns, I'm actually a night-owl, too, BB - I've been known to go to bed with the Dawn Chorus in summer. I always had trouble getting up when I had to be in work by 8.30am, no matter what time I had been in bed the night before! When I suggested getting out of London, I was thinking of your visiting a place that had more sky visible and less cloud.

Well it's interesting that you should say that, because I have friends who live in the West country ( Somerset) and they have complained about the grey skies down there, not to mention the flooding that has taken place in that part of the world during the last few years.

[kasie]

Well it's interesting that you should say that, because I have friends who live in the West country ( Somerset) and they have complained about the grey skies down there, not to mention the flooding that has taken place in that part of the world during the last few years.

Well, ahem, (coughs apologetically) now that you mention it, it has been known to rain occasionally in Wales too....

Nobody has mentioned moonrise - last night's just-past-full moon rose over a high tide, the water was a sheet of silver, the roofs facing south-east were silvered too - it had rained heavily in the day btw BB - it was breathtaking. Sometimes the moon makes a pathway over the water - it is known locally as the Dead Man's Candle, a reference, I think, to the old custom of leaving a candle burning beside the coffin the night before a burial, so that the soul could find its way to heaven. It's supposed to presage a death and though I would not describe myself as superstitious, the eerie beauty of it makes me shiver.

[Niamh]

That's a real hour of the day? I thought it was only a myth...though sometimes that's not long after I go to bed...

Sure is!

I get up at 4:40 AM, showered, dressed, and out the door at 5:35 AM. I have about an hour commute to work, and my work day starts at 6:45 AM.

4.40am! That's positively heroic.

Thats nothing!
If i'm on an early shift, i'm up by 3.40am to start work at 5am.

[Weisinheimer]

Thats nothing!
If i'm on an early shift, i'm up by 3.40am to start work at 5am.

Yikes!
I'm very rarely up early enough to see the sunrise. Though I did get to see it when I used to work the night shift occasionally. Then the sunrise was awesome because it meant I would be able to go home soon.

[WhimsySA]

Sunset... Simply because I'm moody if I wake up early enough to see sunrise

[Emil Miller]

Sure is!




Thats nothing!
If i'm on an early shift, i'm up by 3.40am to start work at 5am.

Ok, but Virgil does it every working day and a friend telephoned me from New York the other day to say that there is a deep snow there. With a combination of an unearthly hour and snow, my own particular bete noire ( or should it be bete blanche ? ) I think he deserves an honorary nighthood at least.

[Virgil]

I would proudly accept a knighthood. Sir Virgil, now that might make my head swell even larger than it is.

[weltanschauung]

sunset is infinitly superior imo