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Nov. 17th, 2015 03:00 pmI laughed at myself this morning. I was heads down in my book (ereader) on the bus. The bus I took had a row of seats along the side of the "walls", facing inward toward the bus aisle, rather than forward facing seats. That means you're sitting sideways on the bus. This is important to the story.
So there I am, sitting and reading and the bus is going over the harbour bridge to Halifax. It's about 7:15 a.m. and the sun is coming up. I glanced up and noticed the bright sun and pretty clouds in what seemed to be quite a nice sunrise, though past that red-pink stage but I immediately thought: Wait, what? I'm facing north-ish! Have I slipped into an alternative universe? What the heck is the sun doing rising over there? and a split second later I realized I was looking at the reflection in the window! Heh.
It was a "perfect storm" kind of situation. The reflection included a piece of land at the other end of the harbour where the sun was legitimately rising. The direction I was facing further up the harbour has, of course, land on either side. The land part of the reflection was laid over the land that I could see through the window so it really did look like the sun was coming up from that direction for the exact instant I looked up. A few feet more across the bridge and the land bit in the reflection would have been floating in air over the water of the middle of the harbour and would have been more noticeable, and would have looked like the reflection it was. It was "right time, right place" kind of thing.
So there I am, sitting and reading and the bus is going over the harbour bridge to Halifax. It's about 7:15 a.m. and the sun is coming up. I glanced up and noticed the bright sun and pretty clouds in what seemed to be quite a nice sunrise, though past that red-pink stage but I immediately thought: Wait, what? I'm facing north-ish! Have I slipped into an alternative universe? What the heck is the sun doing rising over there? and a split second later I realized I was looking at the reflection in the window! Heh.
It was a "perfect storm" kind of situation. The reflection included a piece of land at the other end of the harbour where the sun was legitimately rising. The direction I was facing further up the harbour has, of course, land on either side. The land part of the reflection was laid over the land that I could see through the window so it really did look like the sun was coming up from that direction for the exact instant I looked up. A few feet more across the bridge and the land bit in the reflection would have been floating in air over the water of the middle of the harbour and would have been more noticeable, and would have looked like the reflection it was. It was "right time, right place" kind of thing.