If it’s time to make coffee, that means it’s time to look at the sky.
Tag: atmospheric optics
Belt of Venus
I got up to get coffee, and my good timing was rewarded with a pretty sky view.
Belt of Venus
It’s going to be a beautiful day.
Morning Belt of Venus
What a gorgeous morning! It was cloudy when I was out with the dog this morning, so I didn’t think the sky would be very interesting when the sun came up, but I was wrong.
The View from the Break Room
I like to take sunrise photos from the break room. No one is in there early in the morning, so I can turn off the lights. But the western view isn’t as good. The building and trees block most of the sky. No construction cranes visible from this window, either.
Belt of Venus
This was the view to the west this morning, just before the sun rose. A thin band of clouds intensified the pink of the Belt of Venus.
Double Rainbow
On my way to work this morning, I saw an enormous flash of cloud-to-cloud lightning in the western sky. And then, after the sun rose, there was a gorgeous double rainbow. The sky in the west was still dark with storm clouds, but the sun was shining brightly on the buildings, and off in the distance there were occasional streaks of lightning.
Not a bad way to start the day.
Construction Crane with Belt of Venus
Happy Tuesday! The rain has finally ended, and the sky is clear and beautiful. So clear, in fact, that the temperature dropped overnight. I had to scrape frost off my car windows this morning.
Morning Belt of Venus
It was about 5F at 5:30 this morning, when I left for work. There wasn’t much frost on my car windows, but what there was was stuck on with super glue. It took me almost 20 minutes to get everything scraped. And then, even though I’d started the car and had the heater cranked all the way up, there was still frost on the inside of my windshield.
Ick.
And then the sun came up and everything was forgiven. What a gorgeous sky!
Belt of Venus from the Colonnade
This was yesterday morning, from the colonnade in front of the library. Every morning I take a moment to enjoy the patch of sky framed between the building and the columns.
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