doesn’t get much better than that!

March 4, 2020. Sunset 6:31 PM.


Grand Cayman sunset from my friend Linda...doesn’t get much better than that!
- Joe P.

sun flares green over sandias

March 1, 2020. Sunrise 6:35 AM.
Albuquerque, NM.

here's a something for mar 1!

Sun flares green over sandias
Hits billboard
Sieze me
Abq 6:35 am
3/1/20

peace,
- Erik Ehn

sun event: 2/29/2020 Leap Day

February 29, 2020. Sunset 5:59 PM .
Berkeley, CA.


…cloudy leap day - busy cars (no sound) - Wendy Reid

Happy Leap Day 2020! Sunrise and Sunset

Even grey and dismal days are lighter longer by a few minutes a day now-- Leaping towards the Equinox and Daylight Savings time...

Feb 29, 2020. Sunrise 6:41 AM .
San Francisco, CA


My backyard with the birds and cat.


Feb 29, 2020. Sunset 6:02 PM .
San Francisco, CA


My front porch with the wind.

catching the leap

Feb 29, 2020. Sunrise 6:31 am .
Jersey City, NJ



This one picture I was able to catch, it was pretty cloudy most of February.
-- Ana Léon

Remembering Sheila

Friday, February 28, 2020 at 6:43am
Silver Spring, MD.


Ringing in the sunrise in memory of Sheila Kaplan Davis, who died six years ago on this date. Her sweet spirit is ever missed.

- Linda Allen

February 24, Tibetan New Year, Seattle Sunrise

February 24, 2020. Seattle, WA

Turning of a cycle.
The year is now here.
My spiritual friend, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, writes:
"As we enter this Year of the Metal Mouse, we can resolve to take life one day at a time and practice gratitude for the many wonderful things that life continuously offers us. We can also appreciate the immense goodness that exists in this world (though is seldom publicised). A day is well-lived if we can use it to bring some happiness and comfort to those around us and if we carry out our work in the world with awareness and kindness rather than with confusion and gloom. The Dharma points the way, but we ourselves must walk the path."
Listen.
There is goodness.
Light.
Listen to the bell sounding.
Goodness.

dailybell 2020 collaboration with Caterina De Re

Spring on the Horizon??

Feb 23, 2020. Sunset 5:37 PM.
Ironwood, MI.


Here is our evening sunset. I could not believe the colors.
Have a great week.
- Kathy Roman

Sunrise Triptych

Feb 17, 2020. Sunrise 6:23 AM.
Gaspé, Quebec, Canada

Cowbell from the early 1900s.

Have a fine winter's day.
- Daniel Mace
PS it’s worth noting (maybe) that the other sounds you hear are the wood stove burning.. yummm kk

Blessed

Feb 11, 2020. Sunset 5:43PM.
Berkeley, CA.


Ringing in the sunset together from Kattt’s porch overlooking the Bay. Pretty incredible moment.
Bowl: Kattt Atchley. Photo: Brenda

Where did Februrary go???

February 11, 2020 - Sunrise 7:05 A.M.
Berkeley, CA.

by Vangie King

Sunrise chiming forth
With bird song polyphonies
Chrome bells tinkling.

Pink streaks soft blue sky
With cloud white waning full moon
Crow swoops sipping DAY.

9 words for February 9

Feb 9, 2020. Sunrise 7:05 AM.
Berkeley, CA.


About three minutes before sunrise, I walked out on the second-floor balcony, and the first thing I saw was the full moon in the west. Irresistible to photograph! The wind was very strong, so I decided to use slo-mo video as the sun rose. I forgot that the audio would be slowed down, too, so the ceramic bell I was ringing sounds like a drum!
9 words for February 9: setting dancing flying crows sirens cat's chow time sleep
-- Nancy Beckman

Full moon sunset bell and voices

Feb 8, 2020. Sunset 5:39 PM.
El Cerrito, CA.


sunset on 2/8/20, shortly before the full moon - large bell & voice beside an old eucalyptus tree in El Cerrito, CA.

- Rae Diamond

Portrero Hill 2/7/20

Feb 7, 2020. Sunset 5:39 PM.
San Francisco, CA.

Miriam here! I've never before Friday's sunset, been to McKinley Park 20th Street and Vermont in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. What a view.

Small Openings

Feb 4, 2020. Sunset 5:38 PM.
Grizzly Peak Boulevard, Berkeley.


Absorbing the sunset through the small opening of our sliding security porch screen and a madrone tree.
-- from Kattt A.

How Time Flies...

Feb 3, 2020. Sunset 6:18 PM.
In the Sky over Atalanta? Cincinnati?


Jangling my keys softly at 40,000 ft, as the sun sets on a flight full of passengers somewhere between Atlanta, GA and Cincinnati, OH. Breathtaking!
Apparently altitude does change the time of the sunset. The time stamp on this image is 18:18:45 PM EST, and the sunset times recorded for Atlanta & Cincinnati on February 3 are listed as 6:10 & 6:01 PM EST respectively.
Sherri Lynn Wood

Sunrise, 2/1/20, Oakland, California, by Eric Kupers

Sunrise 7:13 AM. 2/1/20 Oakland, California A feather-down mattress of birdsong
Offered freely
For all of us

Lay down in this sound flood
Let it embrace your exhausted body
Sinking, sinking, sinking
Into feathered love

“Remember, remember, remember,”
Calls ancestor bird
“Remember the root of it all.
The light comes, and the light goes.
We sing it so.”

--Eric Kupers

Early April Fool's

Feb 1, 2020. Sunrise 7:20 AM.
Albuquerque, NM.


- Erik Ehn

Glowing out with a Bang

January 30, 2020. Sunset 5:29 PM.
Berkeley, CA.


I have attached 2 photos from the 1/30/2020 sunset - location: in front of Soda Hall on Hearst Avenue in Berkeley. I was not alone watching the sun fade into night. Interconnection.
- Kattt Atchley

Roadside view/ scaffolding

January 29, 2020. Sunset 5:05 PM.
Manhattan, NY.



- Ana Léon

Real time sunset from glow to gone

January 26, 2020. Sunset 5:24 PM.
Berkeley, CA.


....from my window
- Wendy Reid and Ariel


This is an amazing video- Real time sunset from Wendy and her daughter Ariel. Starting with the glowing sky just as the sun it about to set through the log drain of color from the world to darkness. Accompanied by bell ringing until the final moments. Then into the quiet, dark evening- another light appears (wait for it)!

Sitting on the Rocks of the Bay

January 24, 2020. Sunset 5:23 PM.
Berkeley Marina. Berkeley, CA.


Watching the boats and birds roll by the Golden Gate (It was quiet here, but not THIS quiet) ooops!

View of school bus from distance

January 24, 2020. Sunrise 7:13 AM.
Jersey City, New Jersey.


- Ana Leon

Sunrise and Bell from Daniel Mace

January 22nd, 2020. Sunrise 7:02 AM.
Pointe Navarre, Gaspé, Québec

Antique cow-bell
Stained Glass created by Louise Doré
Looking South-East, where the sun rises this time of year on the 49th parallel.
Enjoy!

Angkor Wat and the iPhone

January 22, 2020. Sunrise 6:31 AM.
Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia


I was am in Cambodia and today Siem Reap at Angkor Wat at Sunrise.
Could not resist this one.
Enjoy!
Barbara Hertel

View from a window

January 21, 2020. Sunrise 7:15 AM.
Brooklyn, NY.


-Ana Leon

Party on the Porch

January 20, 2020. Sunset 5:18 PM.
Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.


Chelsea’s Birthday. Camron-Stanford House overlooking Lake Merritt. Happy Birthday dear Chelsea! It was an honor and pleasure to celebrate with you and your family and friends. Such a lovely moment. Congratulations and best wishes for your newest year.

Sunset Sandwich

January 20, 2020. Sunset 5:18 PM.
Emeryville, CA.


47th Street Sunset
- Miriam Jacobs

Seattle Sunrise

January 18, 2020. Sunrise 7:52 AM.
Seattle, WA.

A new decade dawns. Yawns.
Honor pause.
Ten years, twenty years... would I have thought about now?
I did.
Welcoming this decade, I join Brenda's "dailybell" offering.
Celebrating fellow artists. So many!
Take stock of the Light.
Respect the rain.
My home country burns.
Cry. Tears. Memory.
Rain. Ringing.
-- Caterina De Re

Gratitude and Fun

January 16, 2020. Sunset 5:40 PM.
Cincinnati, OH.



I brought bells to share with folks at The Hive happy hour Cincinnati. The Hive is an intentional community and offers workshops in mindfulness, creativity, body work. This is a new community for me but I invited them to mark the sunset with me, and everyone was so into it! It brought me so much joy and a feeling of belonging. (if Sonya gives permission) Afterwards Sonya Verma who I had just met, shared with me and later the group, her daily practice around the sunset and sunrise. Sharing and marking the sunset as a group, brought us together in a deeper way. There was a lot of willingness, gratitude and fun.
--Sherri Wood

The Sun is Always There

January 16, 2020. Sunset at 5:40 PM.
Cincinnati, OH.
,

“There is that common connection. No matter where you are in the world. No matter what you believe. The sun is always there and how you connect into it is quite powerful”
- Sonya Verma

Sun climbs the Mountain

January 15, 2020. Sunrise 7:18 AM.
Putnam Valley, NY.


Documentation from bell-ringing as sun rose over mountain at 9:09am. Thinking of my mom Jeannette Santoro on what would have been her 76th birthday.
-- Alyce Santoro

More from Pete's Couch?

January 15, 2020. Sunset 5:14 PM.
San Francisco, CA.


Just now from Pete's on Russian Hill.
- Lynne Piade

Sunrise through the groundfog

January 15, 2020. Sunrise 7:26 AM.
Silver Spring, MD.


--Linda Allen

Here we are

January 11, 2020. Sunrise 7:24 AM.
Oakland, CA.

An infusion—
The perfect fade in.
Coming up from underneath and greeting each cell individually.
Hello. Peace be with you.
An invitation to come alive. To light the love lights. One by one.
A ground that manifests without orientation. Can’t place it or hold it down or reach it.
Trickling without drops.
Changing without changes.
Here we are.
-- Eric Kupers‎ to Dailybell Sunwatch

Wolf Moon Sets

January 10, 2020. Sunrise 7:24 AM.
Berkeley, CA.

Wolf Moon Sets, Sun Rises

Wolf presides, dipping down
Having leaped up & over this atom of sky
I stand gazing.

Ever so, Sun climbs
Dousing night & crows wing towards
Arising day.

Greeting moon I howl.
Greeting crows I caw.
Ringing bells, I greet Sun
Bearing us, our day.
--Evangel King

Full Moon Sunrise

January 10, 2020. Sunrise.
El Cerrito, CA.



My first full moon sunrise recording. It has a tiny bit of post production (I doubled and staggered the track to create a continuous vocal drone). This recording was made in a eucalyptus grove on top of a hill in El Cerrito, CA on 1/10/20 at 7:24-7:26 am PST. I'm unsure how else to share this at the moment, so if you have any bright ideas, feel free to download it, and do what you will with it :)
—Rae Diamond

I thought it would be random words

January 10, 2020. Berkeley, CA.

I rang in the 7:24 am sunrise today. I took out my favorite temple bell from Japan and set it up in the garden. Here’s what I did:

1. Beginning at 7:22, I struck the large bell 10 times and rang a small bell. I took a video for part of it. (Sorry the beginning is a little shaky) I didn’t do 2 minutes of video because I thought it would be too large to send to you.

2. Then did a 1 minute recording on voice memos app.



3. I wrote down 10 words that came to me. (Beforehand, I thought it would be random words - maybe next time!).
Redwood tree
Misty breath
Saturated ground
Crumpled leaves
Clear sky

4. Took some photos in the garden


I’ll send the recording & photos from my phone. The 10 is for the date. Next month it’ll be 8. I like keeping track of the full moon day -uposatha practice in Buddhism.

I was kind of busy - haha! Maybe next time will be more contemplative!
--Nancy Beckman

The Latest Sunrise

January 10, 2020. San Francisco, CA.

Today is the last day of the latest sunrise. We have been stuck with the same sunrise time ever since the beginning of this year and have held steady ever since. The days have grown longer only because the sunset has drifted later each evening. So, Hallelujah for tomorrow because of the earlier sunrise, the day will expand from both ends! Yay we are on our way into the light. (At least as far as the length of the days go).

Sonia's Melting Sun

January 8, 2020. Sunset 18:15.

Here I share you the sunset where I live now, in Altea (Alicante), by the Algar River mouth.
Hugs,
Sonia Megias.

Sunrises into the Chem Trails

January 7, 2020. Sunrise 7:11 AM.
Outer Banks, NC.

Outer Banks Sunrise and just after sunrise.
All the chem trails disturb me.
-- Connie Kieltyka and Bob Bielecki

Winter warming

January 6, 2020. Sunrise 7:11 AM.
Outer Banks, NC.

-- Connie Kieltyka and Bob Bielecki

Happy Trailings...

January 2, 2020. Sunrise 7:16 AM. Virginia Beach, VA.

Connie, Bob and Fern walking around on a winter beach. Happy trails!

First Sunset of 2020

January 1, 2020. Sunset 5:01 PM.
San Francisco, CA.

First Sunset of the new year- from Pete’s couch. Thanks Lynne and Pete for sharing your view.

Home from Last Year

January 1, 2020. Sunrise 7:25 AM.
San Francisco, CA.

Ringing in the new year with a new bell from my sister Lisa. Greeting my neighbor as he returns home from last year :)

Turn turn turn...

January 1, 2020. Sunrise 7:44 AM.
Ironwood, MI.

First sunrise of the New Year from Michigan at 7:44 AM (CST), then San Francisco a little later on at 7:25 AM (PST). Thank you Kathy, for the pink peek through the trees. Turn turn turn...

Happy New Year- door to door

January 1, 2020. Midnight San Francisco.

Happy New Year!
Sharing the sound of midnight from my front door to yours.

Sledding into the Sunset

December 27, 2019. Sunset 4:19 PM.
Edmonton, Alberta. Canada.

Greetings from very cold Edmonton Alberta where sunrise is around 9am and the sunset is allegedly at 420pm. My sister-in-law walking into the sunset with little girls after sledding.
- Alexis

Wigilia Celebration at Sunset

December 24, 2019. Sunset- 4:55 PM.
Oakland, CA.

Many thanks to everyone for this very special Christmas Eve - Great company and food and singing. It was an honor and deep pleasure to share this evening with everyone.

Time of Too Much

Depending where we reside on our little planet, the subtle changes of light along the Equator could pass by unnoticed. The increasing lopsidedness of the presence or absence of light as we move towards the poles affects us more deeply. Yet taking a long view, there is a constant shifting, a mindless balance of planetary cycles with regard to how many hours we spend in the light or dark each day.

The Solstice is the day we sit with “too much”.

Here in the North, we are sitting at the bottom of a well in excessive darkness. Sitting in the black hole for too long.

In the South—scorched Earth under a blazing sun. Too much.

This shift into “too much” doesn’t happen suddenly – it happens gradually and then stalls for a moment. Now.

For the most part of this past week, we’ve been sitting in the extremes with a few seconds of change towards the light or the darkness every day.

Fortunately, everything changes eventually. For better or worse, we move into the next part of the cycle.

For us in the North, a fraction of light longer- illumination, hope? In the South, a fraction of darkness- cooling, refreshing the parched earth.

Nature may know how to balance herself, but she can’t, not with the way we have been treating her.

I can only hope that in some small way, if we can connect with the movement - this cycle of light and dark—if we can use this unfailing, elemental cycle as an opportunity to remember how we are connected to each other and to the planet, that it will remind us to take care.

Maybe we can do something to help the Earth to rebalance herself, to heal from our neglect and abuse. Maybe not. In either case, the planet will endure, with or without us. I’d prefer the first option.

Latkes and the Winter Solstice

December 21, 2019. Sunset- 4:54 PM.
San Francisco, CA.

The Winter Solstice at sunset. Experimenting with different latke recipes for tomorrow night. Thankfully, heading towards longer days with Hanukkah lighting the way. The daylight tomorrow will creep 1 second over the dark line!

I'd Rather be Hibernating

December 21, 2019. Sunrise 7:21 AM.
San Francisco, CA.

Better to let sleeping cats lie. Once I woke this one up for the bell ringing, she was restless and cranky for the rest of the morning. (or was that just me)? Hibernation is better.

In Transit

November 29, 2019. Sunset 4:35 PM.
Hamilton Train Station, Trenton, NJ.

Leaving family and Thanksgiving the next day.

Mercury Transit --- Slo- mo do-si-do

FYI- You may or may not be able to see this (tomorrow- Monday 11/11), but it's a lucid perspective to contemplate for a moment. Large distances and slow movements of three balls in space- one of which we are riding upon. Next opportunity in 2032 :)

Is Standard is the new Normal?

November 3, 2019. Sunrise 6:36 AM.
San Francisco, CA.

YAY! Our first morning back in Standard time. Nice and bright and early. Thank you Norman for the beautiful hand-made Anniversary gift. 22 years and still counting.

going down and falling back

November 2, 2019. Sunset 6:11 PM.
Pacific Grove, CA.

This looks like the “green flash”?! The last sunset of Daylight Savings Time going out with a blast. Good catch, Thea!

going going g o n e ...

November 1, 2019. Sunset 6:12 PM.
Pacific Grove, CA.

Thank you Thea for these last moments of the submerging sun at Pacific Grove at 6:12 precisely

Calm before the Storm

October 31, 2019. Sunset 6:13 PM.
Oakland, CA.

Meanwhile, back at the zoo…. Happy Halloween!

Silent witnesses to the end of the day

October 31, 2019. Sunset 5:49 PM.
Ironwood, MI.

Grabbing onto the last bits of warm light. Thank you Kathy for this quiet moment.

California Burning-- NOT!

October 20, 2019. Sunrise 7:16 AM.
Jenkintown, PA..

From Joe---
Sunrise in Jenkintown courtesy of my neighbor Robin Spilner..

Linda and Lamar on vacation with the ponies!

October 15, 2019. Sunrise 7:09 AM.
Assateague Island, MD.
Thank you for this series!!! I can hear it from here...
-- From Linda Allen


October 14, 2019. Sunset 6:26 PM.
Assateague Island, MD.
Indigenous People's Day -- "The Assateague were an Algonquin people ... who historically lived on the Atlantic coast side of the Delmarva Peninsula"
on Assateague Island.
Where the wild ponies are…

In the year 5779-- shana tova!

Rosh Hashanah 5779. (September 29, 2019).
Sunset 6:58 PM. San Francisco, CA.



Continuing to celebrate my father’s 90th birthday season, we ring down the sun this Rosh Hashanah (in the year 5780?). Counting many years and blessings together.

Even the cat has something to say about the Equilux!

September 27, 2019. Sunrise and Sunset 7:01
San Francisco, CA.



At this latitude (37.7749° N) today is actually the day that is divided into equal parts day and night (unlike the Equinox)- Here the sun rises and sets at 7:01 AM and PM.
You can find out when this happens where you live here

Happy Equinox from Tina

September 23, 2019. Sunset 6:40 PM.
Les Jardins de Sophie.· Saint-Fulgence, QC, Canada.

Centre d'Expérimentation Musicale is with Tina M Pearson and 13 others.
What a beautiful residence than Tina M Pearson, which ended yesterday with this equinox night in Sophie's fabulous gardens!
Here is a little excerpt from the opening, where the people present have ring the bells at sunset!



Belle nuit!
Such a lovely memory performing Brenda Hutchinson's Daily Bell, at the Equinox event with the amazing community in Saguenay. Video by Constantin Monfilliette

Final Sunset of the Summer- 300 Bells 2 Boats

September 22, 2019. Sunset 6:55 PM.
East River, New York.

Thank you fellow Ferry riding sunset bell-ringers for these videos-- This batch is from onboard the Ferry from Governors Island to Brooklyn. There are 2 different styles of Ferry that travel back and forth to the Island. I prefer this style, more relaxed and less crowded, it is set up more for passengers than cars. A lovely crossing in any event.

Brooklyn Crossing- Composite. Thank you Mia!


Rosy River Crossing- Thank you Stephanie!

Happy Equinox!

Bells, horns and snippets of song

September 22, 2019. Sunset 6:55 PM.
East River, New York.

Another Ferry from Governors Island-- this one to Manhattan on 9/22/19 at the last sunset of the summer. This Ferry was designed to accommodate cars more than people, so we were mostly crunched up in the front (with the view).


Thank you Gabe and Audrey for your videos :)

The Equinox Team!

September 22, 2019. Lower Manhattan, NY.


Happy Equinox!
It is done-- we have tipped gently into the darkness. Many thanks to the dailybell team for helping the visitors from Governors Island celebrate the final sunset of the summer, ringing bells across the East River on the final ferries to Manhattan and Brooklyn. Thanks to Carol Parkinson and Harvestworks for their support and to Patrick Allen, Elisabeth Beaird, Ben Buford, Emily, Elise de Jong, Caleb Garling, Audrey Greenfield, Barb Hertel, Ana Léon, Richard Marriott, Maria Mykolenko, Mia Narell, Nicole Roscher, Gabriel Shalom and Norman Tuck for showing up, talking with visitors to the Island and passing out over 300 bells.

From Joe with Love this August!

Thank you, Joe for these photos from various places on and above the earth:
August 2, 2019. Sunset 7:58 PM. Cape Cod, MA.

“My neighbor Dalia caught this sunset on her Cape Cod vacation. Wow!” - Joe


August 23, 2019. Sunset 7:50 PM. “Miami (from Ella)”

August 23, 2019. Sunset 7:54 PM. “San Fran (from Chelsea)”.

August 29, 2019. Sunset at cruising altitude between DEN & ABQ.

I have always enjoyed the challenge of figuring out a) what time it is and b) where we are at this particular moment on an airplane!!
Thanks Joe

One year ago

May 29, 1970 – August 26, 2018

August 26, 2019. Sunset 7:49 PM.
San Francisco, CA.


It’s hard to believe that it’s been one year since our dear friend, Erin Espeland passed away. A scientist and fellow musician, Erin left us way too soon and we miss her deeply.

look Ma no hands!

July 27, 2019. Sunset 8:24 PM.
San Francisco, CA.

Waddling into the sunset with my fancy footwork and footwear. It feels great to be able to do this!
Thanks for the video, Norman.

magical sheep?

July 20, 2019. Sunset 8:36 PM.
Tatra National Park, Poland.


"Hello I’m in the Tatra National Park in southern Poland… it’s gorgeous here I’m so happy to be in the mountains and out of the city".
- from my niece Ginger--
(I hear little bells!!!!) the sheep????