Deep Sleep - Is it normal to show a grey progress bar during boot?

I've just downloaded the Deep Sleep widget from Axionic Labs. So far, it works wonderfully.
I really like the idea of Deep Sleep. No power consumption, quick boot and same state it was before Deep Sleeping.
However, I noticed that when I power my MBP on (after Deep Sleeping) it shows the grey boot screen with a grey bar below being filled. Actually, it's several small grey bars being filled.
Is it normal to show those grey bars when your MBP is booting after a deep sleep?
Here's a photo that I took of it: http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2039/dsc00787uz.jpg

davidcmc wrote:
Here's a photo that I took of it:
...and here's Apple's own photo of it, taken from this linked kbase article:
...so, yes, it's normal.

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