The Best Thing About Winter

...is that I am up early enough to see the sunrise (or rather, the sun rises late enough for me to see it). Like this...

And then this morning, there was a mist about the hills, just beginning to dissipate as the sun rose above it:

One of the things that I love about our new house is that we are up on the hill, with no power lines in the way to spoil the view of the sky, and the city.

We drove off this morning to an all day event,down the hill where we found ourselves below the cloud. The power lines criss crossed back and forth across the street, the sun climbed in the sky looking as if it was huge and caught in the power lines, reminding me of the legend of Maui and how he caught the sun in his net.