Clouds & Fog

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A BART Ride Through Feathered Canyons

May 29, 2010 Clouds & Fog

Taking in the anomalous May clouds . . . drifting through spring as Joni Mitchell lyrics. Bows and flows of angel hair . . . And ice cream castles in the air . . . And feathered canyons everywhere . . . I’ve looked at clouds that way . . . The esteemed Joni Mitchell [...]

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Headlands Soup

March 28, 2010 Clouds & Fog

I’ll never forget the first time I drove the Golden Gate Bridge as the advection fog rolled in. You leave San Francisco under a sapphire sky only to be engulfed by a swirling cloud halfway across the gate.

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White Bliss of Fog

August 24, 2009 Clouds & Fog

It’s our built-in air conditioner, the plume of advection fog* that creeps under and through the Golden Gate Bridge — then cloaks the Bay in varying degrees of opaqueness. I call it “bliss” because I’m really a citizen of the north, disguised as a Californian. My lily-white tones do not betray my state allegiance. My [...]

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