Weather

A Mackerel Sky

August 27, 2009 Weather

We went to the Pacific to grab lunch at Nick’s and couldn’t have anticipated the prismatic cycles of yesterday’s sky. At first a mackerel sky, then buttery, then illuminated by flame. Here’s a reasonable representation of our afternoon under the clouds.

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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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