Ozark Sunrise

I stayed out all night making photographs and slept under the stars. Didn't even need a sleeping bag it was so pleasant. I woke as the first rays of steel gray predawn light pushed away the stars in the clear indigo sky. Slipping on my boots, I grabbed by camera bag which had been used as a pillow. Quickly hiking down the trail, I made my way to a wildfire watchtower and looked in the direction of the Current River, hidden nestled in the misty hills. The edge of the sun broke the horizon and I listened to pines sway gently beneath me.