Good Morning...

 The other day while at work, I saw an incredible sunrise. I blogged about it (because I almost missed it...). We've had some fall storms roll in as of late and because of that, we've had cloudy skies. Cloudy skies sometimes translate to brilliant sunrises. I thought I'd see if I could catch one.

When I got to work, I put my phone on a small tripod and pointed the phone eastward. I set the phone's camera to the time-lapse function and hit "go."

Then I waited...

and waited...

and waited. 

After a couple of hours, I thought I'd check to see what I'd captured. As I worked, I kept glancing outside and I didn't think the morning was too impressive. It was no where near what graced us the other morning--far from it. But, I thought I'd check it out anyway.

Turns out, it was amazing. There's something about seeing things sped up that I think is cool.

So, I give you a random morning, a couple of hours in under thirty seconds.

It was a good morning.

Still Finding What's New...Driving Home

In a few days it will be nine months since the move and we're still finding things that are new. Each holiday has been a new adventure, each season change, each sunrise and sunset in different places. I did not expect to find changes in our family vacation.

I mean, we were leaving home to spend time out of state.

But, as we drove home, I realized it was another thing for us to "get used to."

We don't take a lot of family trips, but when we do, we drive. We've driven to Idaho the most, then California, and Washington State. This time we drove to the Golden State. We returned on Monday, driving straight through. Normally, we'll pass Fillmore and I think, "We're almost to Utah County. That means we're close." Then when we reach Salt Lake City, we're so close to home you can almost see the house.

Not this time.

This time, when we reached Fillmore, then Provo, then Salt Lake City, we still had another hour+ of traveling until we reached our new home...it would be a while until we could almost see the house. That's when I realized, that's another change we've got to get used to. I suppose we experience the same thing on the way out of town, but to be honest, we left just after 4am and we were all pretty out of it for the first couple of house.

I write a lot about these changes--I guess when you live on the same street for half a century (pretty much...), moving takes some adjusting. Looks like I'm still "adjusting." However, when we travel north, or northwest, the reverse will take place. We'll reach Burley then Snowville and we'll be almost there. We'll reach Pocatello then Malad and we'll be almost there. I can get used to those changes.