Houses as Mountains (a #5MinuteBlog)

A #5MinuteBlog- no edits, just going with the gut

Maybe not so much in the last few months, you know, due to the newborn, but I typically wake up everyday at 5:01 a.m. I will explain the :01 at some point.

I get up early because I like to be a couple of cups of coffee in by the time the sun rises. When it starts to peak out from beyond the horizon, I open all the back window blinds in the house so I can watch in real time.

The direction from which the sun rises provides a strange phenomenon that leads to a beautiful scene of nature in a place you would not expect it. We live in a location where there are a ton of houses in the distance, but luckily not right behind ours. To the east, where the sun comes up, the houses are slightly more elevated than ours. For about 20 minutes during this window, the sides of the houses that face ours are blacked out by shadows. For those few, precious moments, the houses appear as if they could be mountains.

Jagged. Dark. Interesting.

I know they are not the mountains, not even close. But I sort of pretend. Perhaps this is a sign that we should make this a reality, watching the sunrise over actual, real mountains. Maybe I am at a point in life where I see these types of signs in a lot of different things. I suppose that could be good or bad. For now, I will take it as good. Big, interesting, beautiful things to come.

Coffee. Sunrises. Mountains.

-Houston Bailey (@BumpBailey)