Sunrise in the Carolinas

Boone, North Carolina
December 21, 2016 1:22pm CST
This is what greeted me a few mornings ago. I've just arrived into my new home - just a hop skip & a jump from Coal Mountain - (the Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman movie) and wow! The mountains don't give a spectacular sunrise/sunset daily like I experienced in SE Asia - but when those days do roll around - the depth of cloud color is just amazing. I wish I had a camera that could capture the "Van Gough richness of color". Gosh, I hope I spelled his name right! oh well - it's good to be back in the USA anyway!
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DianneN
@DianneN (246905)
• United States
21 Dec 16
Welcome home! Your photo is very Vincent van Gogh like and so pretty. Van or van is acceptable. I've been to China in the winter - brrrrr and in the summer, which was unbearable. Where in Asia did you live?
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Sunny Shores
@SunnyShores (201)
• Boone, North Carolina
22 Dec 16
@DianneN I've lived in a few countries - most recently Thailand & Cambodia - but have worked in Malaysia & South Korea as well. I wouldn't recommend working in the latter two & only cautiously recommend the former :) Glad to be safely home!
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DianneN
@DianneN (246905)
• United States
22 Dec 16
@SunnyShores Our son worked in Singapore for 6 weeks and spent a little time working and visiting Thailand. There is no place like home!
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Sunny Shores
@SunnyShores (201)
• Boone, North Carolina
23 Dec 16
@DianneN very true - typically - US citizens don't view foreigners (whether tourists or workers) as potential fodder for their schemes. We have our troubles - but we are far more tolerant of differences than the cultures I experienced. I didn't visit Singapore -but a team mate did one vacation & she didn't return. She had the "bad luck" of meeting the wrong man. Two weeks later I quit that job & moved on!! And yes - it is very very good to be home!
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Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (306381)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
22 Dec 16
It is a lovely picture.
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Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (306381)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
23 Dec 16
@SunnyShores You're welcome.
Sunny Shores
@SunnyShores (201)
• Boone, North Carolina
22 Dec 16
Thank you @just4him I appreciate you stopping by & reading for a while
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Hope
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
22 Dec 16
The picture is pretty good but I'm sure the real thing was way better. This is the correct spelling: Vincent van Gogh.
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Sunny Shores
@SunnyShores (201)
• Boone, North Carolina
22 Dec 16
@1hopefulman awesome - nice to score a correct spelling every once in a while :)
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