One of the joys of morning at home is slipping quietly downstairs, brewing a cup of green tea, catching up with friends on the computer and watching the world outside our kitchen window turn from night to day.

This morning the moon is hanging in the dark western sky and there’s a blue haze in the atmosphere.  The city lights down the hill are twinkling softly. The air is chilly and fresh.  Blue is just beginning to gather in the sky but the hills behind us are still black.

I love watching the day come to life.  The hills will first turn blue.  On a clear morning the approaching sun will crown them with a glorious and vibrant earth shadow of indigo and pink.  Then the hills will gradually turn golden as the sky in the east begins to brighten. 

The light of day will march towards us across the city below.  Windows from homes and offices will punctuate the approaching light with momentary sparkles of light.  Then the sunlight will touch the hill tops and begin its march down the slopes into the valley below. 

Day has arrived.  And the cup of warm tea is in my belly, the taste still lingers on my tongue.  Time to get on with the duties of the day.

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People say to me, “I know your look.  I can just look in a magazine and I just know it’s you.”  I wish I could teach that; I wish I could pass that on, but whatever that is, it’s just me.  I’m influenced by everything that I see and feel in life, and I think everybody should be.  Every time you go through a magazine, there are always things that are visually stimulating and can stir your creative juices.  Hopefully, you go on and make your own look, but there are times when you say, ‘”I’ve never thought of things like that before!”  Then it pushes you to go out and create something with the same feeling, or something even better, with that ‘type’ of lighting or that ‘kind’ of color.

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