Favorite time of the day

I know I am a bit of a weirdo here but lately my favorite time of the day has been morning.  As in early morning.  Like pre-dawn hours when I wake up and the stars are still shining brightly in the sky.

I have always been an early riser but lately my insomnia has drifted to the early-waking type of insomnia where I wake very early—1:30 am as I write this—and I have begun to embrace this phenomenon rather than dread it.  

Actually these very early, pre-dawn hours are actually nice.  I enjoy a bit of quiet, peaceful solitude and it is nice to step outside to see stars shining.  This time can also be quite productive.  This last week I have used these early hours to make up many of the materials I need to finish off the year with finals and such right around the corner.  In my early years teaching I regularly got to school by 5:00 am as I had 3.5 uninterrupted hours to work on school work while I was fresh and alert.  By the end of a day of teaching the last thing I want to do is grade a stack of papers—my mind is too exhausted from teaching all day to focus.  I could go home by 3:30 and have a nice afternoon.

This morning I am up early.even by my standards but I have learned to love this time of day.  I sip my coffee and enjoy the darkness of the pre-dawn hours as the rest of the world sleeps.

Eric  

I like those things about the pre-dawn hours, when I am home during them.if I am home at that we either finished early or it's my day off.  It's also the time of day when I always believe I am going to finish all those gardening chores as soon as the sun comes up.  Doesn't matter how many times it doesn't happen, before the sun comes up I always believe this will be the day.

I have always loved the mornings.

When I was in school many years ago, I loved walking to school.  I loved to enjoy looking a what was around me.  The flowers, flowering shrubs, and the bees that loved them and birds, too.

After I was grown and had my first job, I always rode the bus to work so I would get up early so I could enjoy the walk to the bus.  And I always got to work earlier than anyone else so I could get my work done early.

I am still that way.

Whenever I get a minute to sit down!

I prefer sunsets to sunrises. I like the moon and the stars more than the noonday sun. I love a midnight full moon in the dead of winter when the snow squeaks underfoot, and it's so quiet that you can hear the snow landing. I love the summer solstice at dusk, there's more daylight to be outside without getting burnt.