{re-print because...well..I liked it..}
Not, are you a 'morning 'person or a 'night' person.
Not what's your favorite time of the day..like morning, noon or night..... What is your favorite hour?
Do you have one?
I do.
Surprise, surprise, huh?
It's 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I don't really know for sure why -it just always has been.
Ever since I can remember. Ever since I thought about it, which apparently has been for a long time.
4 o'clock.
Maybe it's because school's out...
.. but supper's not yet ready ....( my Mother always had supper ready at 5 o'clock )
Maybe it's because work day is almost done.
I'm not sure why I love it so much...the light's too strong in the summer for great photo shots.
But it is pretty in the winter..and in the fall, incredible..
Once, when we were thinking about moving from Colorado to San Francisco. I was already out there working, before the family joined me.
I went to the pier after finishing up my day early and saw the most incredible sight. At least it was quite incredible for a girl from Arizona by way of Colorado - seals!
On the landings - just soaking up the sun! And not in a zoo!
Real, live, WILD seals! It was the coolest thing I had ever seen.
I got so excited, people must have thought I had some sort of affliction.
But I remember it so well. One of the highlights of my constant "work travel " at that time.
Another time, another place. This time in Texas. We had just rented a house after living in apartments for a long time. Randy and I were recently married. The kids were having a blast in "their yard".
I remember it was a Monday. The restaurant Randy's Dad owned and we both worked at was closed on Sundays and Mondays. It was early fall - I think November. Just when the 4 o'clock sky needs a little help with indoor lighting.
I was cooking supper. We were NOT having fast-food, as we did most of the busy week. This was a day off, and I wanted to cook.
The kids were watching TV and some were playing outside. I could hear them laughing and having fun. I felt as if it were as close to perfection as any of the families on TV I had grown up with. Now, if only I had on an apron....
A house. A husband. A family. Fall.
AND 4 o'clock.
Perfection!
So, what's YOUR favorite hour of the day?? Think about it - it might just stir up some pretty amazing memories.
-me
10 comments:
Colleen -- We would never see each other ! I am so very much a night person. I would say about 8 pm and I'm ready to go out and walk for 45 minutes. Things are slowing down, and it's family or do it yourself time.. Like blogging.
In school, those 8 am classes I don't even remember sitting in the classroom, let alone what what the teacher said. We are just wired that way, I guess.
For years my Mom told me that someday it would all change. It never did.
Now you've got me thinking..ummm ummm ummm .....I'm a morning person. I take a while to roll out of bed then go for a walk..at first its laboured but after a while its enjoyable. After I get home and have a shower, comes the best hour, when I sit down to breakfast with hubby and read the paper and do the crossword. In summer it is 7-8 in winter 8-9 or later. When I'm working it gets shortened to half an hour.
Daybreak....nice, peaceful and still quiet. Well, in the country anyway..
6:00 am. quiet, not yet hot and no phone ringing!
Dusk. The time changes throughout the year, but I love dusk, or the gloaming as I call it. The birds change their tunes, the stillness and quiet, I sit outside til dark comes.
Whatever the hour is during the year just before the sun comes up. It's very quiet and for a moment even the birds take a deep breath and breathe it in. I wish it would stay like that all day long. But then I wouldn't enjoy it as much.
Hmmm, I will have to ponder a bit longer to figure out what hour is my favorite time of the day but I wanted to thank you for reposting this. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and I missed it the first time around!
Hmmm, let me ponder a bit and get back to you :-)
It depends on the time of year for me...
-During the school year: It would have to be 5 o'clock or 5:30, because all my friends and I are together for the first (and only) part of the day where we have dinner together and talk for hours :)
-During the summer: Hmm...I'm not sure...I guess I'd say I actually rather like 4 myself :)
I'm a 'Morning' person.
But I love Twilight. "L'heur blue" or however the French say it. Time of "Painter's Light," it's also called.
I love how the near-setting-sun casts a golden glow on everything... Like the green of grass and trees.
^_^
I don't believe I have ever given this much thought. I think when my children were little and in bed asleep I loved that time of day!
Cute post, glad you re-posted it.
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