Historic Elk’s Club Building.

Andy Alfaro. Visual thinker and all ’round creative mind.

I’ve worked until midnight or later for the better part of the past twelve years. In that time there have been a select few opportunities to vary from those odd hours. And even fewer chances to see the sunrise on company time.

Today I was up pre-dawn to work a 7a-3pshift on the online/multimedia desk for the California International Marathon. Morning light is simply heartening, in a way that only something so fresh and so new could be.

Oddity is a relative term. For my buddy Brian Recore, climbing to ten thousand feet in a pair of Vibram Five Finger feet shoes, that is to say nearly barefoot, is like a walk in the park. Like most things, it’s all a matter of perspective.