Click to enlargenate – look for all of the little blue taxiway markers like diamonds out there in the gloom at sunset.
I don’t know why they call it “gloom” – I thought it was lovely and quite pretty.
Category Archives: Weather
Sunday Sunset From Up In A Tree
While putting up Christmas lights yesterday, I took a peek at what was turning out to be a pretty neat looking sunset. My apologies if some of the pictures aren’t perfectly composed – I was shooting off balance with one hand, holding onto a creaking tree branch with one hand, and holding onto the ladder in an attempt to not break every bone in my body with the other hand.
Good thing that the ground was soft and mushy after a couple of days of rain! (Ask me how I know…)
Filed under Christmas Lights, Photography, Weather
I Want To Be That Bird
Dramatic post-storm skies are dramatic – especially in this desert paradise.
I was thinking that I would love to be up there playing among those clouds. I would probably have to settle for a small plane, or maybe an ultralight. Perhaps a powered parachute. But what I would really love is to be a bird, just drifting on the currents, coasting, spinning, diving, climbing…
It was only after I got home tonight I saw the bird near the middle of the photo.
I’m glad someone got to enjoy those thermals!
Filed under Flying, Photography, Weather
Cloudy Halloween
It was a nice enough sunset, the high wispy clouds turning pink, at least where you could see them through the low marine layer moving in.
Which is lovely, except that we like to bring out all of the telescopes on Halloween and let the trick-or-treaters look through them. To the east, where the leading edge seen above was coming from, it wasn’t promising.
I waited as long as I could, but it wasn’t looking any better. You could see a star her or there poking through the clouds, and I could see Venus setting in the west, but I decided to knock it off.
Of course, ninety minutes or so later it was clear as a bell and folks were wondering why the telescopes weren’t out. (Yes, they really do remember and they really do ask. This is a good thing.) Too late by then.
Next year…
Filed under Astronomy, Photography, Weather
A Little Bit Of Weather
A little bit of weather goes a long way in Southern California!
A 0.10″ of rain and presto chango! The freeways are gridlocked. But at least the sky looks lovely while you’re going nowhere fast.
I swear, it would cause less congestion to get 6″ of snow. At least then (most? some?) people would pay attention and drive just a hair more cautiously.
Filed under Los Angeles, Photography, Weather
Be At Peace
A very, very long day following a very long week following another very long week following…
I could probably use a “mental health day” or two. Or five. Or ten. (That won’t happen.)
You know that meme that’s going around Facebook that shows a cabin in the middle of nowhere in the mountains with the question, “Thirty days, food, water, and provisions provided, but no one else there, no internet, no smart phone, no electronics, and when you get done with the thirty days you get $100,000 for enduring it – would you do it?” What a stupid meme. Do they not realize that there are people who would PAY THEM $100,000 to do that?
I know that the Cubbies are still fighting it out in the 12th or 13th inning, but I have to go to bed.
It was a really nice sunset on Saturday.
Filed under Paul, Photography, Weather
Hope Where You Can Find It
You sure don’t see much of it watching the news these days.
It occurs to me that a side effect of the five-year drought here is that with very little rain, there are very few opportunities for rainbows.
That sort of takes a suckish situation and makes it suck even more.
Filed under Photography, Weather
Adios September
As the months continue to swoosh by like the lights in a subway tunnel as it hits Warp Eight…
Bring on October, I’m ready to kick its ass!
Just as soon as I can get a good night’s sleep. Which probably won’t be tonight. But when I do, look out1
Filed under Photography, Weather
Like Sauron’s All-Seeing Eye
First use a five-year drought to turn everything to tinder. Next toss in any random spark in order to fill the sky to the west of us with megatons of smoke.
Repeat as necessary so there are so many fires burning across the state that they can’t possibly fight them all as aggressively as they would like. This leaves fires like this one that are out in the middle of nowhere in the mountains to just be allowed to burn for the most part while the bulk of the firefighters and planes are trying to save tens of thousands of homes elsewhere.
Sort of a brute force way to get spectacular sunsets, but it seems to be working well!
Filed under Los Angeles, Photography, Weather
Sky Dandruff & Super Sunset
I usually leave the sunroof on Hissy open a half-inch or so just to keep the heat from building up when it’s parked for a long period. This morning, even though that opening wasn’t much, I found the black seat to have some white ash on it.
This evening this translated to some amazing shadows on the white water vapor clouds, being cast by the much darker clouds of drifting smoke.
Fires like this can be terrifying and enormously destructive, but their side effects are not without a certain beauty despite that.
Filed under Los Angeles, Photography, Weather
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 