Sunrise No. 2,026 of 2,000+
- Sunrise time: 6:15
- Azimuth: 58° ⇡
- Did the sun rise: Yes
- Was the sun visible: Mightily
- Felt like: 55 ºF
- Air Temp: 55 ºF
- Humidity: 81%
- Wind: 3 mph ⇡
- Wind gust: 6 mph
Exposure
- 105mm
- f/4.0
- 1/320 sec
- 100
McCarty's Cove, Marquette, MI
0.5 mile commute
📍 46° 32' 48" N, -87° 22' 41" W
Musings [300 words]
I experienced a little heartache at sunrise this morning.
A customer recently reached out to have a sunrise card printed with the tree and bench below.
I was sad to walk by this morning and see the tree was recently downed by a mighty storm.
It’s not the most prominent tree of YOTS, but a scene I’m certainly familiar with, accomplished by this perfectly placed bench. I appreciate deliberate bench placement. Depending on my sunrise route, I’d walk by this tree and bench every couple weeks. The bench now looks so alone.
Since YOTS began, quite a free trees have gone missing. Shorelines have changed in subtle ways, a few buildings have gone away. I now have a very thorough archive of these subtle changes of the Marquette shoreline.
I hope a few good words were shared about this tree before it came down. I hope the wood went somewhere it could be crafted into something longer laster.
This last Christmas my parents gifted me a beautiful block of wood from MSU Shadows, a project that “partners with Michigan artisans to repurpose campus trees into handmade, heirloom-quality works of art.”
This is the sort of thing I’d like to happen everywhere when prominent trees come down. Maybe one day I can put forth and effort to create this starting in Marquette. I’d love to see a documentation of the type of tree, the approximate age, and the date the tree was cut down. Maybe this tree turns into a wooden vase, or a cutting board. But mostly I’d like to see it made into a new bench, with a small plaque detailing the three this bench used to be. And of course, to be sure a photo is taken along with a few nice words before the tree is felled.
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