Spring Thing

[krpalmer]

Aware that today is the first day of spring, and perhaps still musing on the drive into work about the latest Astronomy Picture of the Day I looked at early in the morning as I often do, I was struck by getting off the highway at a point where I'm looking east to the water of Lake Ontario. With the weather having been clear (if cool) for the past few days, at that precise moment I was able to see the sun just starting to rise above the lake; it got a bit higher in the few moments I was still driving in that direction before turning towards work. While getting to that point at that moment of sunrise on the first day of spring was a coincidence, it did stick in my mind; perhaps it made up in an odd way for daylight savings time always starting at the moment driving to work has become "daylit" to start the process of brightening again. I could also remember watching the sun set over the ocean one day on my family's cruise vacation last year, although I had more time to take it in then.