Barn at Sunrise

As I looked at this photo taken in the mid seventies, it struck me that the sun always rises, but the pictures we have of these beautiful events are never the same. Not only are the sunrises varied, but the cows, the barns, or the palm trees we use as foregrounds, are no longer there. Did anyone else ever photograph this barn? Did anyone ever capture those bovines on film? The sun, the moon, and the stars have outlasted everything that we ever put against them as a foreground for a photo. Why is it that the objects of permanence are in the background while the temporal subjects are the main focus of our attention? Do we tire of the daily occurrence of sunrise and moonrise, and are more interested in the things that do not last? The parallels to our spiritual lives are there if we dare to look.