Monday’s setting sun provides reflections of color on a waterfall near the Blue Ridge Parkway while this morning’s emerging light offers a different hue on the stream that runs through our front yard on Greenbriar Lane.

This time of year provides a wide spectrum of early morning and late afternoon color when the skies are clear and the sun provides a colorful, reflective light. It makes the walks around our home worthwhile and lets one start the day energized and end it in calm reflection of life in general.

Spring has arrived in the mountains. Cool mornings give way to pleasant days. Life is good on the third rock from the Sun.