Photo Op

There is a moment, just before dawn, when the day hovers on its way to beginning. In that precious, fleeting and delicate time, before I rush, headlong into the light and ride the inexorable movement of our planet around the sun, I stop to take in the wonder of it all. How lucky I am to be aware of such things. Here, my camera caught the moonset one early morning, just an instant before the first arc of day took away the night. -Ashley G., Marina Del Ray, CA