Ready for Morning Coffee

By Deborah Nyman

The deck chairs are empty. The lake is still. Autumn has painted the trees overnight and scattered leaves across the weathered boards. Inside, the coffee is brewing. The smell of a fresh new morning along with the fragrance of a favorite coffee makes a wonderful moment to just enjoy. This photograph captures that perfect suspended moment of an early fall morning at a lakeside cabin — before the day begins, before anyone else is awake, when the world belongs entirely to you and the water and the light. Shot at sunrise, the soft glow breaking over the lake through a frame of turning maples gives the scene an almost cinematic warmth. "Ready for Morning Coffee" speaks to anyone who has ever loved a cabin, a lake, an autumn morning, or the simple ritual of a quiet cup before the world wakes up. Universally appealing and endlessly comforting — a piece that makes any room feel like a retreat.