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Sunrise in the Winter January 21, 2010 - 9:54:01
Ok to start off. I have classes at 8 in the morning. I'm sure that's a common thing for colleges. WITC usually has classes start in the 30's of an hour however so an 8:00 class is very uncommon while 7:30 class is common. So what does this have to do with a sunrise in the winter? I will explain.

I get up at 6 in the morning and it's plenty dark outside. I leave my house around a quarter to 7 or at 7 depending if I have to give my friend in Spooner a ride to Rice Lake. So I live in Shell Lake and I often go travel a good 30 miles(according to the odometer in my awesome Toyota Corrola). Since this is about 7 in the morning when I travel on Thursday and Mondays, I get to see the sun rise while I drive on Hwy 53. Now if you have ever seen a sun rise in the winter, you would know how the sunlight reflects on the snow and it sparkles and such. The sky is like a purpleish colors and orange where the sun is rising. That sparkle on the snow and that purpleish sky is beautiful.

I use to be in wrestling when I was in high school. Often on saturdays we had tournaments at a school about 60 miles away usually(something like St. Croix Falls, Ladysmith, or Superior). I would have to get up at 5 or 6 in the morning to be at the school by 7 so we could reach our destination. I use to take my friend to the Gas station in Spooner and get donuts and I could buy his ciggerettes(he was 17 at the time and I was 18). We often would stop at the middle of the road and we would see the sunrise before we reached the school on time. I often enjoyed looking at the sparkle on the snow.

Now this is a question I now ask myself often. Why are the sunrises so beautiful in the winter? I wonder if it's because I don't see them much. I use to work a lot of mornings at my job and I would see this sunrise often and even then it was very beautiful. I wonder if it's something that I just find beautiful. Well for whatever reason, I still find them to be very beautiful.
- Langland
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Possibly due to less atmospheric interference...

sunrises are always beautiful...