In his version of the expression, “the best things in life are free,” Irving Berlin said it in the forthright way he said everything: “I’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.”
By Reg Green
In the musical, “Annie Get Your Gun,” the song was a smash hit.
Shortly before five this morning I was awakened by the moon shining brightly on my bed from a clear sky. Soon after six the sun burst into view as I hiked in our local mountains.
“What lucky people we are to live here,” I thought for the thousandth time.
W.B. Yeats described a similar ideal: we can pluck “the silver apples of the moon and the golden apples of the sun,” he wrote.
And, as the photo shows, there are those magical moments between the two when anything is possible, including even a pocket-sized photographer becoming a giant.
Sunrise at the Mt. Lukens fire road (Photo – Reg Green)
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