Nice sunrise today, nothing too complicated for this, the first Monday of the year. The extra padding of the post-holiday weekend is gone, the inane and annoying obligatory year-end lists are done with, and those schadenfreude-y 'you'll never keep your resolutions' stories are winding down.

Did you make any? Resolutions? Mine are pretty simple: pay cash for gas at filling stations, and catch (and share) the occasional sunrise.

Here it is, first light in Malibu, the blues and pinks so pure this morning:

A sailor slept in:

We could see downtown:

And the sun --

It rose.

Happy new year! (And first Monday.)