Sisters from the Start and My Pen Lay Still Not

THE SUN IS COMING UP OVER the horizon on Colorado Spring Lake. It is the most beautiful sunrise that Pearl Duello has ever seen, and she has seen many beautiful sunrises. In fact, she has been all over the world in different time zones to take photographs of sunrises and sunsets, and other natural and mysterious phenomenon such as the photos of the aurora borealis. The Alaska’s northern lights were awesome. She made a little fortune off the ‘rivers of light in the sky’ that seem to be dancing off buildings.

Pearl has her camera posed, ready again for the shots of her life. She snaps photos of the sunrise. This sunrise captures the sapphire sky, striped with purple, orange, and yellow tints as the sun meets the lake and sky halfway.

She is wearing a yellow lightweight pullover sweater and jeans with hiking boots. Her dark auburn, long, straight hair is in a ponytail tied with a yellow ribbon. It is almost five in the morning and chilly, but Pearl is determined to get the sunrise shots, so she shakes off the chill.

Pearl loads her camera repeatedly, and by six, she has over a hundred shots. Everything around her is beautiful: trees, grass, even the bushes, so green and so lush.

The evening before, she was on the east side of the lake taking shots of the sunset at different stages, as Mars came into view with the setting of twilight. Last night was the last night that you could view Mars with the naked eye. She had taken photos every single day that Mars was present. The photographs are spectacular and priceless.

Moreover, as always to her, the next natural event is more beautiful than the last one.

She smiles to herself because she has a dozen rolls of film of a perfect sunrise at different stages. She barely slept the night before thinking about the sunrise after shooting the sunset that striped with bright hues of gold with Mars in the backdrop. What a wonderful over night trip, she thinks.

Excitedly, she jumps into the rented Land Rover and heads to the airport to catch the 8:05 a.m. to return to Houston.

As she drives along the back roads, she gets really excited about developing her rolls of film and spreading them out with the other sunsets and sunrises that she has taken all over the world in the last month for a special edition. Although she hasn’t contracted them to anyone specifically, she is sure this layout will sell and net her a bundle. She thinks nothing can stop me now.