sunrise five, camera zero

My ignorance is vast! I tried getting a photo of the sunrise this morning. Huge, vivid, epic sheets of color. I tried different settings. This is shot with the flash turned off.
Ho hum. It looks pastel and rather boring. So I tried with the flash turned on.

And now the colors are too dark.


Too portentous.


The sunrise was lush and so bright that the very air was tinted. This just looks brooding and ominous, as if it bodes ill. And it's not that kind of sunrise at all.


Oh well. At least I can color the scene with my words if I have to. Thank heavens I have a thousand words or so to spare. ;-)

Today is the start of cleaning and baking frenzy for the knitter's tea on Saturday. I think it's going to be lemon cake, deviled eggs, ginger thins cookies, lemon macarons from the "Tea" magazine I just picked up (and may have to subscribe to)and "Petite Ecollier" biscuits for that hit of chocolate. Oh, and I need to run to the store and pick up a couple bags of clementines so we can pretend to be virtuous by eating fruit. Depending on how the macarons come out, I may bake some orange/cranberry scones to fill out the table. Time to put on my sweats and grab the serious cleaning gear. Now where did I park the front-end-loader?