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Shooting the moon. It’s been going through cloud banks…

Shooting the moon. It’s been going through cloud banks, fading in and out of view, usually only the brighter, uneclipsed part visible. We’re at an intersection at the top of a hill facing east, along with a lot of other people. Someone just pulled up to the stop sign and asked, “What time is the eclipse?” Response: “Now!”

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On the Grid

Looking up along the side of a building that's entirely covered with glass panes.

On Friday afternoons I like to take a walk around the area when on break from work. This week I went looking for grids. I noticed very quickly that grids are everywhere in a modern city.

Window grids on glass-faced buildings. Paving and floor tiles. Wall tiles in the bathroom. Ceiling tiles in the office or retail stores. Storm drain grates. The patterns of bumps on the non-slip section of a wheelchair ramp.  If you zoom out, there’s the pattern of streets, all the electrical and data cables making their way around town…

…and of course the metaphorical grid that all of us are plugged into, that some of us long to get off of.

Seasonal Wetlands: Summer vs Spring

Seasonal Wetlands: Summer vs Spring by Kelson Vibber

It finally occurred to me to put together a side-by-side image of the one spot I managed to take photos of on both hikes!

On the right: May in Madrona Marsh, after winter and spring rains filled up the low-lying areas of the preserve.

On the left: Late August in the same spot, after summer had dried up the pools. Despite the drought, and helped along by a couple of freak summer storms, the ground is still holding onto enough moisture that the floor of the vernal pool is covered with low greenery instead of dry grass.

I know, it’s always better to put “before” on the left, and I tried it with that layout, but it ended up looking better this way.

Odd: Google Photos actually increased saturation on this. Half the time the auto-awesome…

Odd: Google Photos actually increased saturation on this. Half the time the auto-awesome (or whatever they’re calling it these days) takes a photo with bright, interesting colors and makes it a dull black and white (it hardly ever picks the shots that actually look good in B&W).

Storm water pond: Now with added storm water!

Storm water pond: Now with added storm water!

Storm water pond: Now with added storm water!

It rained pretty hard last night near home, and clearly it rained hard enough here that mud was flowing over the sidewalks, and the detention pond still had water at noon. On a related note, yes, they’re still watering the lawn too much here. At least there’s a lot less of it than there used to be before the renovation, between the hollow and all the planters full of native and otherwise less-thirsty plants and wood chips behind where I was standing. #pond #losangeles #rainwater

Cambridge and the Charles River, #seenthru the railing of the Longfellow Bridge from Boston

Cambridge and the Charles River, #seenthru the railing of the Longfellow Bridge from Boston. The bridge is currently under renovation. I assume repainting is on the schedule.

Photo taken at: Longfellow Bridge

Cambridge and the Charles River, #seenthru the railing of the Longfellow Bridge from Boston. The bridge is currently under renovation. I assume repainting is on the schedule.

@pixlr #bridge #river #skyline #Boston #paint #railing