I know, sounds weird don’t it? especially since I can’t stand my current boss who makes my life at work torture since I never know what sort of insanity he’s going to come up with next or what new thing he’s going to start ragging on me about based nothing more than I'm willing to stand up to him…. but wait, this is about my commute and the fact I now enjoy going in not about why I don’t like being there once I arrive…so…
The Gw Parkway is really nice at 4:30-5:30 in the morning, esp. on days like the last two. Today, for instance I stopped several times at some of the pull offs and just sat enjoying the views of the early sunrise/predawn sky and mist on the river and stopped at the marina to take a few shots of the water and boats. while I was there all these little fish kept jumping, sometimes 5, 10 or more at a time, as the sun light turned the water from a flat darkness to subtle shades of red and orange, and the ripples spread out in little expanding circles of light and dark rings, with an occasional larger fish jumping further out from shore making even bigger circles. Then some ducks came floating by, leaving a trail of wakes in the predawn reddened waters. So I got out my 8.1 cybershot and put it on manual mode and started shooting some photos in the hopes of catching a few of the little fish jumping, the changing play of shadows of the shoreline trees overhanging the water that formed an arch through which the ducks swam, and the masts of the sail boats reflected on the changing colors of the water with subtle shades of brightening sky behind.
Well before I knew it I wound up being a bit late for work and firing off a hundred plus photos and THINK I ever got one of the little fishes just as he was cresting its jump, but I’ll have to wait until I get home and look at it on something other than the itty-bitty little screen of the camera.
I wonder how many folks can say they enjoy their commute in the work? Probably more motor folks than most other’s who use some other more boring form of daily transportation I would recon
So yeah, I LIKE my commute in the AM, do you?
(Pictures to come if there are any worthwhile sharing,, god I love digital, 116 shots taken and if not one comes out, still no cost other than my time spent, which is free and is only my time so I can "waste" it as I choose, and maybe if’n I’m lucky a few new lessons learned along the way.)
RM