My Morning Travel: Sunrise Earth

Still homebound.  I am itching to get on the road but work, school, and family obligations must be fulfilled.  So, I have discovered a way to travel each morning.  I watch Sunrise Earth.  This wonderful program is an hour of recorded sunrise from somewhere on the planet.  Yesterday was the Penobscot River in Maine.  This morning was Sequoia National Park in California.  There is no talking, just the natural sounds.  From time to time, a blurb with interesting facts will come onto the screen.  You can watch Sunrise Earth on the Animal Planet channel.  Or, if you have HD, you can watch it on HD Theater.  The website for Sunrise Earth on HD is very complete.  It has a place where you can submit photos of a sunrise, you can go on location to the various sites featured, you can even watch a sunrise through Google Earth.  I loved looking at Bison at Yellowstone which is a place that I visited two years ago and took an early morning tour, not quite sunrise, and saw the clouds of exhaled air coming from the breathing bison and elk.  It was beautiful. 

So, this morning, though I know my day will be hectic, I have started it in a very serene state after viewing the giant sequoias and knowing just what a small space on this earth and in time that I occupy.  It is awesome!