Things before sunrise
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- October
- 23
The sun rose at 7:16 this morning. In the half-hour or so before that, I saw the constellation Orion in the sky, two Canada geese sitting at the edge of a pond with frost on their backs and a muskrat silently swimming along in another pond.
Read more about Orion here. Read more about muskrats here. To get sunrise and sunset times and moon data for any day, go here.
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