Sundial Mottoes lean to the somber, a caution to be mindful of time for example: Sumus -Fumus ' 'We Vanish Like Smoke' or Sic-Imus-Ad-Atria-Lucis-Aut-Umbras-Erebi 'Thus We Pass on to the Halls of Light or to the Dwelling of the Shades.' (image Chartres Cathedral)
Sunlight pierces the drifting clouds over Laojun Mountain in central China’s Henan Province, bathing its mountaintop temples in a warm glow and revealing a serene, almost otherworldly landscape at dawn.