Taking in Life Around Me.....#Sundaystills: Theme...Sunrise or Sunset....or both

This #sundaystills challenge is hosted by Terri from Second Wind Leisure. It's a great themed photography challenge that you'll enjoy. I love seeing the other participants interpretation of the theme each week...it causes me to think outside the box. I joined in hopes of it pushing me to get out and take more photos...I have to some degree, but I also like that Terri is okay with us finding photos in our archives, which is also a lot of fun. So check out my photos and then head over to Terri's page to participate or visit other's posts. There are some awesome contributors who always inspire me.

Holy cow...it's been a bit of a struggle to post and comment this month...not sure why. I promise to make it around to comment on everyones posts from last week. I'm always so inspired by what each person captures. I'm trying to motivate myself to take my camera out more, and have actually considered getting a smaller, lighter camera so it's easier to take around than my DSLR...so if you use something other than a larger DSLR, I'd love to know what you shoot with. 

This weeks theme is sunrises and sunsets. I must say they are both my favorites. I'm glad I'm a morning person, though I sure wish at times my house wasn't surrounded by so many trees and I could enjoy both sunrise and sunset....I'm often not highly motivated to leave that early to capture it...need to work on that. 

I have to say the sunset in Venice was pretty! 

I spy with my little eye Canada. When we visited Orcas Island a few years ago we had a great view of the Puget Sound and Canada in the distance. The sunsets were gorgeous. 

Sunset in Sunriver down by the horses. This guy wanted to be in the pic.

Sunrises over Lake Erie are a fave. So are the sunsets depending on where you are. When we were there in 2022, our house was just down the road from the lake front, so I walked down each morning to enjoy the sunrise. I shared the sunsets the last time we did a sunset/sunrise #sundaystill

We captured a few sunrises and sunsets on our trip to the East coast in 2022. 

I felt like this butterfly embodied the colors perfectly!! As did the flower it's perched on.

Another sunrise in Plymouth, Mass. 

Sunrises and sunsets in Cabo as well....does anyone else just love the way the sky changes if you wait long enough?

I didn't capture many sunrises or sunsets in Hawaii, but we did get a bit of sunset while in Waikiki.

The home where we stayed in Hawaii was in an area that was great for walking and I tried to go on a walk every morning as soon as it was light. This lagoon area had a walking path around it. 

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirstin