Election Day 2004

New Day Dawning

My clock was set for 5:30AM, but I woke up around 5 and couldn't get back to sleep. I'd planned to get up early and stop at the fire house on my way to work this morning, but the polls were opening at 6AM, and the closer it got, the less I could wait. Marty was still in bed at 5:45 when I came back into the bedroom and said, "Come vote with me."

We arrived in the half-light of dawn, around 5:55, and there were already about thirty people in line ahead of us. After a chilly wait of about 10 minutes, we were in the door, and we'd finished voting by 6:15. We used the old fashioned machines with the lever that closes the curtain and then casts your ballot.

When we walked back out of the fire house, we were greeted by a glorious sunrise. And, on the other side of the sky, a full rainbow. So big, I couldn't even fit the whole thing in my camera lens.

Get out and vote today. It's the most important thing you'll do all day year. Or even in four years.



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1. Waiting to go in and vote. Marty is the guy in the Georgia sweatshirt on the right.
2. Democracy is everyone's responsibility.
3. Sunrise, 6:15AM.
4. Sunrise, 6:15AM.
5. Rainbow over Middletown.
6. Driving up our street.