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Bright spots at sunset.
The bright line above the sun is just a contrail, high enough to catch the light without being tinted orange. The one off to the right is a sundog, ice crystals reflecting the sunlight. When I saw it I thought it was too far away to be an ordinary sundog, and might be part of a less common halo, but once I looked at how far away it appeared on camera (it’s all about the angle) I realized it was in the right place.
Seagull, patron of the arts.
I finally caved and picked up some clip-on lenses for my phone, and I was trying out the macro lens at lunch. Perpetua adds a little color to this one.
I finally caved and picked up some clip-on lenses for my phone, and I was trying out the macro lens at lunch.
Contrail and shadow
Dashed contrail. You can really see that it appears and disappears with the same atmospheric conditions influencing natural cloud formation.
Perched
Yellow flowers
Photo taken at: Redondo Beach, California
Twilight in a beach town. The ocean is just visible at the end of the road, below the orange band of sky at the horizon.
White blossoms. It’s the closest we get to snow on trees here.
Old and new growth. I’m not sure if these tufts if grass actually use less water than a lawn or not, but they do turn brown in summer/fall. A month or two ago they went by and cropped all of them down to stubs, and then we got a few rainstorms and the grass started growing in green again. I guess this means they’re not irrigating it much, which answers my question.
It’s a little windy.
Iceplanter
View out the (rainy) window
