Its dark when I leave the house and walk to the train this morning. I leave the house at 6am this morning to catch the train to get me to work before 8:00am. This isn't so much for productivity reasons as it is for political ones. Ah, office politics. If we could live in that utopia of where being a productive knowledgable worker, allows you to work the times you are most comfortable and productive.  But I don't think anyone really gets that. Its the worker bee's pipedream. So I'm on the early train. It leaves the station and it is still dark outside. The train car is quiet with the exception of the air conditioning. Most people are either asleep or snoozing.  No snorers this morning so its fairly quiet. I rarely sleep on the train. In fact I rarely sleep in any moving vehicle, I've always loved seeing the road go by. In this quiet sleepiness that is the train car, I'm reading and every once in a while looking out the window. We get about half way to Union station and as I look out the window I see the sun starting to rise. However heavy clouds are infront of the sun so it shines through them with beautiful purples and reds and oranges. In my brain the phrase instantly flashes:

"Red Sky by Morning, Sailor take Warning, Red Sky by Night Sailor's Delight"

Riding in the upper deck of the train car, I'm about ten feet above the tracks, and as we cross the San Gabriel River the train is 20 feet above the road, we have a perfectly unobstructed view of the whole valley. The whole sky is ablaze. I think, "I wish I had my camera" knowing that even if I did, taking a low light shot from a moving train just won't come out like I see it. Red Sky by Morning, Sailor take Warning Red Sky by Night Sailor's Delight.