Morning in the Mountains

All is silent.

No cars, no people up yet. Just nature, cool and and beautiful.

This time of year, I wake up to this view. The sun just starting to peek over the mountains to the East. The desert floor still in darkness. 

It’s a perfect time of day. Not too cold to sit on the deck and enjoy the quiet. The only downside is that mosquitos are still active this time of year, another month though and they’ll be in hibernation and then it’s just the cool morning air and occasional rustling of nocturnal animals heading back to their dens for the day.

This is one of the things I missed living in the city and I realize I prefer this as a way to wake up, much more than anything else.

Even the crickets have stopped their loud… cricketing. I have no idea what you call that sound. Chirping I guess, but the past few weeks its been sounding more like constant bad brakes.

It’s Sunday morning. The hustle and bustle of the workweek begins again tomorrow. But generally speaking I won’t be hearing that. I’ll be here looking for jobs and locking down the last details of my life for this stint of unemployment.

I still haven’t figured  out where I want to get away from everything but I’m working on it. I suppose the issue is that I’d like to have a traveling companion and go somewhere different. 

I definitely need to take a trip. I need to remove myself from the worries of the world for a while. I’ll have communication gear for sure, but If I don’t connect to the internet then I can write in peace without bombardment from the outside world.

I think that’s one thing that I’m learning, all the notifications “Dinging” on my phone, and computer are intrusions that I don’t need or want.

I’ll spend some time this morning tuning off all the notifications that I don’t need and trying to quiet down the noise a bit.

I hope your Sunday is a peaceful one.