Good Friday 1/6/12

• Got up to a soft, subtle, slow sunrise.  Pink and blue heather surrounded the skyline.  Sunbella glowed ember red as she rose through a veil of pale gray clouds.  When she cleared the veil, she drenched Mother Ocean with pools of honey light.  Definitely worth waking up for.
• Took a brisk beachwalk at the 11:30am low tide.  Saw people walking a white ferret with a chubby gut on a leash on the beach.  He would take a few slithery steps into the surf, then back up and scratch at the sand.  I've never seen a ferret up close.  They look and move freaky, like a snake-dog hybrid.  Me no likey.
• I've had a love-hate relationship with writing today.  Was ready to smack my head on the dining table when nothing was coming out of my pen, then when the words started flowing I had such a rush of feel-good energy and didn't look up until an hour later.
• Just in from sunset watching.  Sunbella sunk through a cluster of puff clouds and turned them orange and blueberry sherbet.  Intense.  Sipped Fairfield Red from Stonehaus Winery in Crossville, TN, a perfect complement to the sunset.  SGD and I did a tasting at Stonehaus on our way home from Myrtle Beach last May, and the Fairfield was our fave.  Still delicious, but it would have been much better with SGD sipping with me.