The top image is from the archive - January 20, 2007, a morning when much of the sunrise event's stunning action was "away from the ball." This contrasts wildly with the bottom shot of today's Raleigh area sunrise, a near-duplicate of yesterday's. Truly, you could never expect the first without the second.

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