Category Archives: Digital Art & Photos

Sunrise Sunset – Photo Challenge

For the Daily Post’s Photo Challenge this week, a few photos of sunrise and sunset from my corner of the world. While I rise every day before dawn, I am rarely outside to capture the sunrise. The best I can do is this spectacular view on my drive to work and the view through my windshield (captured on my iPhone).

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Working dawn to dusk certainly has its perks when it comes to the ambience of the fiery sky at sunset. Especially in Winter, I am often blown away by the beauty that greets me when I head for my car after work. On this particular December day, several of us were stopped in our tracks by a sunset that lit the sky red in various hues over the course of a few minutes. Fortunately, I had my iPhone on me and captured a few shots. You don’t see a sky like this every day.

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and just a few minutes later as the sun faded over the mountains…this…

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It occurs to me that sunrises and sunsets are only spectacular through the prism of clouds. There’s a message in that thought somewhere. I’m going to think on that for a while. 🙂


Essence #30

azure splashed, dappled grey,
clouds, wind-lashed, wisp away

~kat

Essence #30 for Jane Dougherty’s daily Essence Poem Challenge.


Spring Vespers – A Haiku

Persephone smiles
and the earth blooms, its vespers,
spring’s fragrant, first breath.

~kat

For Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge, Prompt words: worship (vespers) and goddess (Persephone).


Pay – A Haiku

do not pay
to play but rather
play for pay

~kat

For Haiku Horizons, Prompt Word, Pay.


Essence #29

cooing dove, grey morning
perched above in mourning

~kat

Day 29’s Essence for Jane Dougherty’s Daily Essence Poem Challenge. You guessed it! Another dreary day in the mid-Atlantic, Blue Ridge Mountain valley. I love the sound of morning doves in the grey.