Okay, technically, that picture is jumping ahead a little … It was taken when my wife and I went on a romantic early morning walk on Saturday morning to watch the sun come up, and the rest of the pictures in this post actually happened before that, when I got up super early, and didn’t want to wake her up yet…

I mean, she wanted me to wake her up at a certain time to see the sunrise, and I tend to wake up really early…

So I went down and took these pre-dawn-warm-up pictures…

You know, before I went back and woke her up…

There is a stillness at that time of the day that you can’t find at any other time.

You feel like you are watching the world come awake…

When I went back to the room to wake her up, I spotted this cruise ship from the balcony, coming into the port of San Diego…

I was wondering how many people on the ship had bothered to get up early to watch the sunrise.

And I was still wondering that when we went down to the beach to start our romantic walk… which I will tell you about in a few minutes…