Sail Away
Seemingly alone on the vast ocean, a solo sailboat rode the gentle marine breezes into the twilight sky off the coast of southwest Florida. A rather hazy sky muted and diffused the warm tones of long-path refraction in the near-horizon atmospheric layers, softening the scene and accentuating its serenity. Sanibel FL (30 Dec 8) Looking WSW 26.4498, -82.1426 … [Read more...]
3 Peaks
The half orb of the setting sun silhouettes Mt. Evans and two adjoining Colorado peaks, striking a once-per-year pose of symmetric balance relative to this vantage on some of the highest of the High Plains, at "Cedar Point". 7 SSE Agate CO (10 Jul 4) Looking WNW 39.3524, -103.8697 … [Read more...]
Why to Avoid Flooded Roads
A half-mile long stretch of road hides under moving water. There are good reasons why people are advised not to drive into low water crossings when flooded. Imagine hitting this by surprise after dark. Your car and dead body could be recovered downstream, or entombed in the river bottom, never to be found. Even in daylight, you could be swept away and killed; there is no good way to judge the … [Read more...]
Window in the Sky
What must it be like to soar across the sky, higher than any birds can fly, and gaze out through a portal in the clouds at earth below and heavens above? Something very much like this... over northeastern NM (8 Aug 8) Looking SE … [Read more...]
Hailstone in a Hailstone
Holding up a variably translucent hailstone to bright light can exhibit some fascinating and curious textures and elements, including the opaque core that anchored the formation of clear surrounding ice here. This was one of numerous similar stones, rounded on the edges but flattened to gently curved on the sides, that fell from a severe, heavy-precip (HP) supercell. See Bigger than Bicentennial … [Read more...]
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