Babs writes: The sun rises on the west side of Torch Lake. It was a nice sunrise!
I will translate for you. The sun rose in the east. People who live on the west side of Torch Lake watched it set the clouds on fire and drank their coffee.
People who live on the east side of Torch Lake slept in. Their turn comes at sunset.
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Torch Lake Views 
Martha J
February 23, 2016
Beautiful! We face west on the bay, and some mornings I see what looks like fires on the peninsula. I assume it is the sun hitting some windows, but it really looks like fires. Either way, it is always nice to awake to some sun instead of gray skies. Thanks you, Mother Nature (and Babs)
Gerry
February 23, 2016
Good morning Martha! I’ve seen those flames too, and like them. Sometimes if the sky is just right the sunrise is reflected in the mist over the Bay. I love that best of all.
Martha
February 23, 2016
Funny you have another “Martha J” here!
Living in a city you don’t really get to see sunrises unless you are living in a rise yourself. But I am delirious when the sky is bright. I even woke at 6:30 to find it wasn’t pitch dark anymore. I felt like I’d been asleep for years and woke to find a new world.
Signed, Northern Cave Dweller.
Gerry
February 23, 2016
To see the sunrise I have to climb down my stairs and run halfway around the circle and out to US-31, OR – it has to be one of those wonderful winter mornings when the sun is rising in exactly the right place to splash redly into my face as I walk the dogs. That doesn’t happen very often.
I know what you mean about the earlier brightness all by itself being the miracle. YES! Life returns.
uphilldowndale
February 26, 2016
I’m with you there… I crave the light in May, when you wake into such a gentle light, it feels so good.
Dawn
February 23, 2016
On my brother’s lake in AL we often take a sunset boat ride, and as we head home the windows of houses behind us catch fire like that. Pretty cool once you figure out the houses aren’t actually burning. Once in a long while, especially in fall when the lake is still warm, little whirligigs of mist turn pink in the morning. Amazing.
Gerry
February 23, 2016
I love the pink whirlygigs! What I love the very best is a full moon setting over the Bay reflecting the sunrise. Happens twice a year I think, but sometimes it’s invisible. I suppose if we could see it on demand it wouldn’t be anything special.
tootlepedal
February 23, 2016
Dawn is better than sunset. Lucky people who live on the west.
Gerry
February 23, 2016
You and Babs are of the same temperament then.
Babs Young
February 23, 2016
Gerry, you did a perfect translation. Thank you!
Gerry
February 23, 2016
You’re welcome. You did a perfect sunrise.
WOL
February 24, 2016
Beautiful as this view is, I think I am constitutionally more suited to the east shore of Torch Lake.
Gerry
February 24, 2016
I completely understand. I have found a way to have it both ways. A long ridge runs north and south through Torch Lake Township. From that ridge both sunrises and sunsets are often glorious, and feature views over Torch Lake or Grand Traverse Bay respectively.
shoreacres
February 24, 2016
I’m a sunset specialist, since my windows face NNW. In the morning, I never see a sunrise unless I’m already out and about, or there are clouds, or it’s the twice-a-year time when the sun lights up the windows of the NASA Hilton, and it looks like a flaming torch.
I like that yellow and gray combination. We often have pinks and blues in the morning, and vibrant golds, oranges, and purples at sunset, but yellow is rare. In fact, steel gray and lemon-chiffon pie yellow is a sign of a serious storm coming. I don’t think you had a storm in your future with this one, though.
Gerry
February 24, 2016
You are right about . . . OK, everything. If the steel gray and lemon chiffon pie yellow had been a sunset I would have been thinking deep thoughts. Mostly we get our weather from the west. I can look across the Bay to the Leelanau Peninsula and see the rain sweep right across.
uphilldowndale
February 26, 2016
Facing due south, I feel deeply privileged and very content
Gerry
February 26, 2016
Also pleasantly warm.
Karma
February 28, 2016
I have a tendency to be “directionally challenged” – thank you for the explanation 😉
Gerry
February 28, 2016
You are very welcome. I find that I am easily directionally confused, but that if only I can remember what time of day it is the sun will help me out.