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On The Road – Paul in Jacksonville – Sunrise, Sunset

by WaterGirl|  March 21, 20245:00 am| 24 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Photo Blogging

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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Paul in Jacksonville

Images from just over two decades. from the mundane to the (imho) the remarkable. Collection 1 of 2.

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Sunrise Boca Raton, FL 2010, taken from a bridge over one of the hundreds of man made canals designed to drain the Everglades.

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Sunset St. Augustine Beach, 2018. Standing in the Atlantic Ocean with the water up to my ankles.

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Sunset Peaks Island, Maine, visiting friends. The island is just off the coast of Portland. One of the interesting discoveries I made was a cemetery with graves dating back to 1797.

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Sunset 2006, somewhere on the Oregon Coast.

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Sunset 2018, Gatlinburg, TN. I found a mountaintop airbnb overlooking the city. I’m not sure what was watching me at that particular moment.

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Sunset Boca Raton, 2021. Wile E. Coyote with some odd clouds.

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Sunrise from Spring Mountain in the Napa Valley, 2006. For 10 years during my wine career, I represented small family owned wineries from Santa Barbara in the south, to the Anderson Valley in northern California. One of my tasks was to entertain clients by guiding tours from winery to winery. Our Napa Valley winery had a guest house near the top of Spring Mountain. Here you see the early morning fog on the Valley floor.

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Sunrise St. Augustine Pier, 2020. For me, sunrise at the beach is nirvana-esque.

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Sunrise 2018, Gatlinburg, TN.

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Sunset 2023 in the Riverside/Avondale neighborhood of Jacksonville, FL.  One evening outside of the wineshop/restaurant where I spend three days a week.

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24Comments

  1. 1.

    Winter Wren

    March 21, 2024 at 6:10 am

    Great captures! I agree about beach sunrises, especially in Florida.

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    LiminalOwl

    March 21, 2024 at 7:21 am

    Thank you for the lovely photos. What a nice way to start my morning!

  3. 3.

    Kristine

    March 21, 2024 at 7:40 am

    Lovely photos. I don’t miss living in Florida—the humidity gets to me—but hard to beat the sunrises and sunsets.

    A Napa visit is a dream.

  4. 4.

    CCL

    March 21, 2024 at 8:02 am

    Beautiful.

  5. 5.

    Rob

    March 21, 2024 at 8:20 am

    Pretty!

  6. 6.

    sab

    March 21, 2024 at 8:57 am

    Wow.

    We have taken to watching the Brit/French police procedural comedy Death in Paradise just to see the Caribean sunsets featured on every episode.

  7. 7.

    Mike in Oly

    March 21, 2024 at 8:57 am

    Marvelous!!

  8. 8.

    Albatrossity

    March 21, 2024 at 9:01 am

    What a great idea! I hope that others are inspired by this post to send in their 10 favorite sunsets and sunrises from the past!

    And I certainly agree with you about beach sunrises. That is a sublime time to be at a beach.

    Thanks!

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    March 21, 2024 at 9:33 am

    I feel calmer just looking at these.

    graves from 1797, wow!  And some crazy clouds.  TN looks like the apocalypse.  Napa Valley is stunning, and the sunrise at St. Augustine Pier is like nothing I have ever seen.

    What a great idea for a collection of photos.

  10. 10.

    SkyBluePink

    March 21, 2024 at 9:43 am

    Lovely way to start the day!

  11. 11.

    Wag

    March 21, 2024 at 9:56 am

    Beautiful.  Thanks for sharing

  12. 12.

    stinger

    March 21, 2024 at 10:03 am

    from the mundane lovely to the (imho) the remarkable spectacular

    FTFY

    That first Gatlinburg photo — yikes! Run away, run away!

  13. 13.

    Dagaetch

    March 21, 2024 at 11:07 am

    Golden hour is best hour.

    Beautiful shots!

  14. 14.

    munira

    March 21, 2024 at 11:09 am

    Wow – these are gorgeous – thank you.

  15. 15.

    pieceofpeace

    March 21, 2024 at 11:22 am

    A brief sleep interruption in the wee-wee early hours greeted me with these dynamic, drop-dead photos.  Could not have brought anything other than the force of nature bringing on calm, blissful relaxation as I enjoyed them.

    They are each lovely.

  16. 16.

    BigJimSlade

    March 21, 2024 at 12:33 pm

    Very nice!

  17. 17.

    Dan B

    March 21, 2024 at 5:50 pm

    Your Wiley E Coyote is accompanied by Mamatus (sp?) clouds, from mamary. All we need is Mamatus over the Tetons to have a big titty picture.

  18. 18.

    Paul in Jacksonville

    March 21, 2024 at 8:05 pm

    @Winter Wren: Thank you.

  19. 19.

    Paul in Jacksonville

    March 21, 2024 at 8:10 pm

    @LiminalOwl: Thanks for the kind words.

  20. 20.

    Paul in Jacksonville

    March 21, 2024 at 8:11 pm

    @Kristine: It’s either a dream or an airplane ride away,

  21. 21.

    Paul in Jacksonville

    March 21, 2024 at 8:16 pm

    @Albatrossity: Oh my.  I’ve been reading BJ since I don’t know when. To me, you are the preeminent contributor to this part of Cole’s domain. Your recognition is deeply appreciated. Muchas gracias!

  22. 22.

    Paul in Jacksonville

    March 21, 2024 at 8:18 pm

    @WaterGirl:  Thank you.

  23. 23.

    Paul in Jacksonville

    March 21, 2024 at 8:20 pm

    @stinger: Thank you for the kind words.

  24. 24.

    Paul in Jacksonville

    March 21, 2024 at 8:21 pm

    @pieceofpeace: pop, I love you.

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