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Sunrise at Virginia BeachOne of the things about visiting the beach on the East Coast is watching the sun come up. My friend Andrea and I had planned to watch the sunrise from the minute we got in the car in Stuarts Draft. We determined that she would not shut her side of the door all the way in our adjoining rooms, so that I could get in to wake her up. That didn't go exactly as planned. Her exact words when I woke her up at the pre-agreed hour were, "F--- the sunrise!" After making sure she was sure, I returned to my room, and grabbed the camera. And so I ended up enjoying the sunrise by myself, in my pajamas...
"And first, there was dark..."
"...as the lights of the concrete boardwalk shine bright."
"Ah, there we go! Now we've got some light!"
"And a little more..."
And as "we greet the sun when night is done", people smooth the sand of the beach for the day.
And the waves crash against the beach.
And two people make out in the lifeguard's chair...
The sun's trying to poke up above the slight cloud cover, but it is not quite there yet...
And all the while, the waves do their thing.
And the sand-smoothing guy continues to smooth out the sand. A shame that a couple of hours later his work will be undone...
It's getting there!
THERE it is! We have sun, ladies and gentlemen!
And so now the waves do their thing with a little pink glow about it.
And of course, my love of ships knows no bounds even while doing the sunrise. I caught a ship doing its thing in the morning...
And even at this ungodly hour, there's people waking their children up to go walking along the beach!
The sun is here! Let us rejoice!
And as the sun gets up, a man plays in the surf. At the time of this writing, I have an enlargement of this picture as my wallpaper.
As the sun shines over the Atlantic Ocean, the keeper of the Titanic, the Andrea Doria, the Lusitania, the Columbus, and more, I get a stunning picture (if I do say so myself!).
And all the while, a couple gets in the water, and prepares to have some fun.
All right! The sun's out! People are starting to come out, and a dump truck is going across the sand, undoing all that the sand-flattening guy just did. I told you I felt sorry for him... |
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