After two weeks of gloomy mornings, a sunrise. Ironically, it was Santa Monica that was socked in with fog today. But at 6:31 a.m. here in Paradise Cove - which does face east, despite what many well-meaning (and more than a few irate) letter writers told me yesterday - the sun cleared the horizon.

I don't mean to bore you with yet another photo of dawn here in Malibu, really I don't. Two in a row? Zzzzzzzzzzz. Just because I can't seem to get over the view doesn't mean others should suffer through my obsession. So enough of sunrise. Enough of this view. For a while, anyway. In a few months the planets will have spun and the earth rotated enough that the sun will seem to rise straight from the sea. And that'll be worth another look.