Day 1737 a breathtaking sunrise 5k jog AND dog walk!

Ooooh I have a million photos of the sunrise this morning. No filters at all but you won’t believe the colours I saw this morning.

What a wonderful day to be alive.

First things first… last nights’ moon and stars…

The first photo shows a bright Venus to the extreme right of the shot and the brighter one to the left is Saturn! 🪐 I was so excited.

The bright light below the moon is Jupiter!

I love my new found fascination with the night sky.

When I took the dogs out the back at 10.15pm, it was almost daylight. We didn’t need the floodlights on at all. It was so cold, so calm and so bright. it was lovely.

Back to this morning!

I was awake from 5.30 and got up at 6.30am. I was meeting Claire and Lynsey for a run at 7.15… a positively civilised hour compared to our normal run times. 😆

It was very cold so I put on an extra layer and my thicker leggings. The ground was so frosty that it almost looked like snow. It was white and furry.

It was bitterly cold and we just had to be careful to make sure we didn’t slip.

This is one of the entrances to Spiers Old School grounds. This was the first time I stopped for photos!

As you are about to see, I stopped a lot for photos. 😆 it’s strange that it was quite a fast run despite my being the team photographer!

Lynsey took a photo of me with Claire.

The sky was so beautiful. We all said it would have been so easy to stay in bed this morning and not run. We maybe would have had some extra sleep and scrolled social media for a while.. instead we got this!

I couldn’t stop myself hanging back to take photos.

I love this next one.

Now this next photo is not the colours that we saw. The white/pale pink line on the horizon was actually orange… the camera couldn’t pick it up, for some reason. I think it still looks stunning.

It’s about 7.40 by now and it’s getting lighter.

Selfie 🤳 the girls are at the top of the hill.

It was just out of this world. I’m so grateful we got to see this.

And we are done. 5.46kms in 38 minutes and 49 seconds. The sweat was lashing out of me by now.

I thought I’d better just walk the dogs while I was on the move. I shoved an anorak over my running gear and set off up the hill. The sunrise had gone and this is al that’s left of it.

Or so I thought….. then I spotted this!

You may know by now that I don’t watch the news at all, but I have just heard about the wild fires in California, and the devastation they are causing. This next hour or so is very reflective as I’m blown away but the colours, the light and the beauty, while also thinking how scary that must be when the colour is caused by fire. 🥺

I can’t believe I thought sunrise was over. This was Sunrise 2.0.

I just doesn’t look real.

Any icy trough in the field.

While the sun rises in the East to the left of me, the West is putting on its own show, as a freezing fog rolls in, from the Garnock Valley.

The depth and pattern in the clouds is just amazing.

Back to the fog… I didn’t know which side to look at 😆😆 this is our wee village in this shot.

If you zoom in you can see how the fog cover.

Back to the village.

And now the fog is picking up the colour from the sunrise.

Then the obligatory puppy pose shots as I suddenly remember I’m out with 3 dogs 😆

Love this one!

As the sun heads up into the cloud, the fog looks white against the darker blue of the sky.

Back home with the three Borders and out with Khaleesi. She doesn’t get the colour show!

This is the same shot I took yesterday just in different colours…. Almost black and white.

So I came home, had a much needed shower and headed to the supermarket for a food shop. On the way home I popped into Beith. This is the old church.

I treated myself to a coffee in Curiosity. I had an oat milk, mint latte with some Battenburg rocky road which was out of this world!!

I had great chats with everyone who was in. It’s a lovely space. I didn’t know anyone else but we all sat at the single table and chatted.

I was there for an hour! That was 4,5 hours ago and I can still feel the caffeine coursing through me! yes… everyone who shouts DECAF at me… none of you were there 😆

Back home and put the shopping away and then set about some more cupboards, clearing out and cleaning them. Don’t worry there isn’t much left to do 😆

I settled down to do Donna Ashworth’s journal prompt and Khaleesi wanted a cuddle.. bless her.

So I hope you all have a lovely Saturday night and I hope I can sleep after that coffee!

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️