Sunrise — 7:24, 7:29.

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Sunrise — 7:20.

It was too cold for a full-scale sunrise run this morning, but I bundled up for a short walk to a vantage point.

I liked the view out over the frost-coated cattails...

The extra steam from the University power plant did the diffusion work normally performed by clouds...

 

You can see all the clear sky...

 

Meade was waiting for me in the truck, and he took this shot as the sun broke through...

 

He assures me that I am in that picture. 

Here's how the breakthrough of the sun looked to me....

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk about whatever you like.

Sunrise panorama.

Time: 7:21.

Icy Lake Mendota in the morning and afternoon.

It finally warmed up enough to do the sunrise run...

... about 30° at 7:27 when I took that photograph. 

Later, we drove out to a place in Madison that I'd never even noticed before, Governor's Island:

 

This is land that had belonged to a governor in the 19th century, that became the Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane, later called Mendota Mental Health Institute. It's where Ed Gein lived out his last years. 

We enjoyed our sojourn around the beautifully scenic location. It was about 40° at 3:20, and we walked out onto the Lake Mendota ice... just a little way...

 

Watch out, if you go. There are, I hear, some "puddles." 

I liked the view from the bluff...

 

Notice how the ice piles up in frozen "waves" along the shore. 

We walked the entire loop of the small island, then drove home around to our side of the lake, where we got a glimpse of the sunset... 

... as we entered the car wash:

ADDED: One more photo. This one by Meade:

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk 'til dawn.

A dreary sunrise...

... but it's a café nonetheless.

In the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk all night.

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk all night, but don't talk about the re-impeachment here. Go one post down for that. Keep Trump out of this one. This is a Trump-free safe space. Let's talk about safe spaces and other concepts that recently were big but have disappeared. A difficult topic, because who can remember what is forgotten. What's the most important thing you forgot recently? What's your favorite time of day? What songs can you think of that depict romantic love as a very casual, easy-going activity? Do those songs annoy you or were you hoping they'd influence potential partners not to be too demanding? 

Blue morning.

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk all night.

And here's a picture of me on my 70th birthday, ice skating:

Photo by Meade.

And thanks to all who wished me a happy birthday.

Sunrise.

At the Friday Night Café...

 

... you can talk about anything you like.

At the Sunrise Cafe....

... you can talk about whatever you want.

Thick fog made the 3-dimensionality of the sun photographable this morning... or no, it was just an illusion...

 

 ... wasn't it?

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

New Year's dawn.

7:33: 

7:40:

 

 7:46: 

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At the Sunrise Cafe

... you can talk about whatever you want.

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can write about anything you want.

Meade took this picture of me looking at the sunrise at 5:24.

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