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Jake's Sunday Post Morning, Morning quotes, Playa San Miguel Costa Rica, Republic of Panama, Sunrise
Predawn eclipsed moon – Setting over Samara Costa Rica
The anticipation of dawn often nudges me outside, where daylight slowly permeates the twilight hours. My essence drinks in the delicate softness as the day slowly awakens. Basking in its freshness, I embrace the early morning and attune my senses to the beauty of nature. Frustration rarely taints my day if the mornings are devoted to a silent conversation with nature.
Why I creep outside before sunrise!
Morning; Jake tossed us a delicious morsel to ponder for this week’s Sunday Post Challenge. Thoreau wrote, “Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.” He also described morning as ‘the most memorable season of the day’ and said that something awakens that slumbers the rest of the day and night.
Walk with me through my favorite season of the day and enjoy the magical spell of early morning along the Pacific. Paired with the images are random quotes that compliment this week’s challenge. (Thanks, Jake!)
To be awake at dawn! – Estero/Playa San Miguel, Costa Rica
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” Marcus Aurelius
Morning – Republic of Panama
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasnt arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and Im going to be happy in it.” Groucho Marxx
Panama dawn
“The period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate.” Swami Satchidananda
dawn surprise
“Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.”
Rene Daumal
“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
– John Ruskin
Morning Baptism
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Robert Brault
Manta, Ecuador Runners
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up you’d better be running. “ Maurice Green
Embracing the Dawn – High Tide
“The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.” Thoreau
Dawn Boat Taxi – Republic of Panama
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it. ” Richard Whately
Why I start trekking at 4:30 a.m. – Playa San Miguel, Costa Rica
“If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?”
– Joy Page
Wake Up, World! Morning awaits! How many great sunrises can one squeeze into a lifetime?!
“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.” Jeannette Walls
“It matters not the time of day or the attitudes of man. Morning is when I am alive, and there is a dawn in me.” Thoreau
Thanks,Jake! How can one have a bad day if one embraces the morning?!
Have a great day, everyone! Z
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Beautiful post. The images and quotes are really inspiring.
Thank you! This challenge was a fun one! z
It looks very peaceful, beautiful photos, text and quotes! Thank you…
Thank YOU, my friend! Z
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Food for thought – thanks for these photos and quotes!
Favourite: “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Robert Brault
So true!
Thanks for your feedback, and yes, it’s so true that it’s those small treasures that often mean the most! Z
Great choices of images my friend,
Thanks for sharing your idea 🙂
Thanks for another great challenge, Jake! Z
water is in your life as important as colors, isn’t it?
your gallery with so many water & light events is wonderful!
Si, the restorative powers of water are very important to me; it’s not surprising that i’m a water-symbol cancer! my favorite places are near clear quiet streams, though as a child i was equally happy knee deep in muck along the mississippi river and its oxbow lakes!
water and color to me is like music (and photography and words) is/are to you!
Lovely, Lisa. This is, by far, the most important post I’ve ever read.
Maurice Green? Love it! That one made me smile. The rest made me think…hard.
Have a beautiful day. Every day. G
What a lovely lovely comment, Gemma! The quote is often credited to different people, but I think its true credit goes to Maurice Green, an Olympic medalist. Here are more of his quotes: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/maurice_greene.html
I am honored that this post meant so much to you! Thanks! Z
Thanks for the link. He’s certainly driven. 🙂 And you are most welcome.
Beautiful post Lisa! How serene it looks there.
Thank you, amiga! My friends are getting a lot of rain right now, seven inches, which came only a few days after the temblor. i’m glad that i’m in ecuador where it’s cool and dry!
how’s the weather treating you? z
At the moment it is treating us splendidly! We had well over a foot of rain from the hurricane, but it’s all blue skies this week. Spent the last two weeks preparing for the hurricane, going through the hurricane with company for 4 days due to flooding on the coast (my kids live on the coast) and then cleaning up after the hurricane. Ugg. But it’s back to normal now. I hope they all miss you this year!
thanks; costa rica gets the rain but usually very little wind. there have been weeks of nonstop rain – i’ll never forget one october when we received 50 inches or rain in three weeks! that was before internet saturated the area, so it was another year before i found out why we received so much rain! a hurricane stalled somewhere near honduras and spun its spiral bands of rain for a long time.
we know most of the hurricanes alphabetically, as almost all that funnel through the yucatan area pull moisture across central america.
for some reason, we don’t have bad mosquito problems but i’ll bet the mosquitoes have been swarming all of you!
z
Surprisingly, we have not had a mosquito problem yet. I keep hearing about it, but we are ok so far. I think Texas is having a big problem with them and I saw on the news last night they had a report of West Nile virus in Alabama. It is supposed to be a bad year for that.
Yes, pretty much all of the Gulf hurricanes pass by you don’t they? I am not a big fan of rain although I know it is a necessary evil. In a perfect life it would rain every night for about an hour between 1 and 2 in the morning and leave us alone the rest of the time 🙂
I’m told that many times that’s what the rainy season is like in Ecuador. Until an el nino year rolls around, and from the descriptions, it sounds like hurricane rains on steroids!
z
Everyone gets a sunrise and sunset, but not everyone gets turtles! Those are my favorites. No matter what mischief or idiocy humans get up to, the world keeps to its own rhythms, and survives.
hey! you are so right about the world keeping its own rhythms. and yes, i am very lucky to experience those precious tortugitas each year!
z
I chuckle at “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it. ”
That describes me. I agree with shoreacres comment about the turtles. Lucky you. Beautiful pictures and quotes.
yes, it’s a funny quote but oh so true! i find that if i roll out of bed and am out before daylight, i have so much more spare time in the mornings. i’ll look at the clock and do a double take and ask, ‘it’s just 9 o’clock?’
thanks for your comment! z
Struggling to find words. Gemma’s right. It’s a rare post. Those sunrises, the water, the words… all beautiful.
You are so kind, and I’m honored that you give this post such praise! all of your posts are amazing; when i see your name in the inbox, i always prepare for a great post! thanks! z
Bless you for that Lisa. I do appreciate your support.
Perfect! “If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.” Jeannette Walls–love this. I love your pictures and all you have here, i just love this post. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
There are times when I realize how valuable feedback truly is; sometimes others see merit and wipe the glaze from our eyes. Thank you for helping me see this post through your eyes, as I thought it was a bit stiff! I am humbled! Z
Beautiful blending of quotes and photography Z! Thank you!
thank you amiga! i’ve gotten behind again on my reading but look forward to getting home and catching up. your posts are always wonderful! Z
ave a special magic for your art come to my land. Beautiful shots …
carlos!
you are always so kind; thank you for your positive feedback!
i am way behind on my reading and know there are several of your posts waiting in queue. tonight i am way too tired to read anything and remember what i’ve read.. but tomorrow p.m. i will be home and can look at your posts via my new computer!!!! new comments coming soon to your web address! z
Hi zee
just to tell you that this is one beautiful post. I love your photos (Save my spot on the beach in photo # 2) and love the quotes. I think the Maurice Green one is my fave. I’d better learn to run!
thank you so much! for sure i will reserve a spot for you! z
Lovely photos and inspiring quotes. Makes me wish I was a morning person!
i realized long ago that i felt no better after a few hours’ sleep, and once i took one step outside, i was alive and very in tune with the world!
thanks, as always, for your comment!
z
I, too, love mornings — and the twilight as well. Thanks for taking us with you to the dawn of a new day. Great photos and delightful quotes!
thanks, amigo!
i’m way behind on reading, but will be home in the briar patch tonight. i look forward to catching up/reading your posts.
i will also be putting the laptop burro to pasture and look forward to taking the thoroughbred for a run through wordpress!
z
hat fit in beautiful post and very inspiring and wonderful quotes that fir in perfectly with the challenge.:)
Carol
thanks, amiga! i enjoyed that challenge, as you can tell! z
You certainly have the best morning images i have seen anywhere!
Amiga! You are forever kind and positive and truly are the greatest cheerleader around! Muchas gracias! Z
What a treat to view the beautiful morning photos and reading inspiring quotes. Thank you so much!
Thank YOU, sweet Amy! Z
A morning I wish to gaze forever. Beautiful images.
Ah, si. If only all of our mornings could begin with such ease! Z
Mornings are really my favourite time of the season too. Except I like nights, too, and the two don’t go well together. But those mornings I get out at dawn are very precious – and I tell myself to do it again every morning… Love quotes you have collected for the post. En joy the rest of the weekend!
Thanks, Otto. Even when I was a child, I often tipped out of the house before sunrise to find and catch my horse and ride til the sun burned off the morning crispness. I, too, can catch a wave and ride it all night, and you are so right, the two do not go well together! When that creative side of the brain is on a roll, it’s hard to stop!
Yesterday morning I slipped outside at dawn and was rewarded with a pelican that came for a visit. It came within a few feet of me, and we had a lovely silent conversation until I held out my hand, and it snapped at me! It surely thought that I had a fish in my hand? After fifteen or so minutes, it grew bored, hopped back into the river and swam to its buddies on the other side! Had I lingered in bed, I would have missed its visit!
Thanks, as always, for your comments!
Z
Thanks so much for these morning treats: lovely photos and quotes!
you are so welcome! morning truly is a special time of the day! z
Captivating, beautiful post, my dear. Loved it 🙂
Thank you so much! Morning truly is a special season of the day! z