Fortunately, being right after sun rise, the sky was clear there and was still a good shade of blue. The shuttle was a bright white and seemed to get brighter as it went towards the sun. With binoculars, I could make out a shape. I could tell the nose and could see either the wing or tail pointing up (I couldn't tell which and if it was making a bank, it could have been the wing pointing up). I was able to follow it for about a minute and didn't see any thruster firings (or no contrails were seen). This is the second sighting from here of the shuttle. A few years back, I = glimpsed it going between some clouds. This one was much better. The sonic boom followed a couple of minutes later. Bill Bard wtba@eci-esyst.com