Snow ... aglow

On the eve of the winter solstice, the sun peeks out below departing snow clouds with her promise of longer, warmer days to come.

Through a screen, darkly

Sunset, December 10, 2009

The Sony digital camera I use at work couldn't get its mind off the window screen, and I'm not sure how to turn off autofocus. As it happens, I rather like this effect.

Racing toward the solstice

Today at around 3:45, as I was updating the address-label document I keep on my computer for Christmas cards, I realized with some shock: The sun is setting. Fast.

Where did the day go? Where does the time go? How can it be December already? Time, you old rascal. There's just no stopping you.

We appreciate the sunsets, if not their premature arrival.

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In the still of the morn

6:55 am, moonset over Brushneck Cove. Not even a whisper of wind.
(If you click on this photo, you can see the brant geese.)

This morning Lady Moon was caught by the bare branches – a pale moth in a tangle of hair.

Back to Standard Time

After sunset, looking down the cove at Greenwich Bay (RI). I missed the bright colors while I was grocery shopping this evening, but this was lovely in its own purple way.

Click on the photo and find the landing light of an incoming plane headed to Green Airport!

L'heure bleu

Brushneck Cove, Warwick; taken from my car on the way home last night.

Better late than never

The best part of tonight's sunset occurred when Kevin and I were in the parking lot at Target, putting bags in the back of the Santa Fe. It was … panoramic and multicolored and stunning. I nearly wept that I couldn't capture it with my camera, which was at home.

This is what was left after we brought the groceries in. It was pretty in its own way, like a lingering memory.

What Kevin saw

The fiery edge of night: He caught it!

Hurtling at 70 mph down 95 South this evening, I grew frantic: The sun was setting and the sky looked sublime, with a large dark cloud cutting straight across a melon-hued sky above the sun. Where the contrasting shapes met, an edge flared as if afire.

I speed-dialed Kevin at home: "Grab my camera and go outside. I think this sunset will be a good one." I told him how to turn off the automatic flash on my Canon G-10, and hung up.

It's a seasonal aggravation: As the days shorten, I can't beat the sunset home. Can't capture those colors and contrasts and flares as I drive.

Luckily, tonight there was a new eye peering through my camera, the fresh sensibility of a 17 year old. While he aimed at approximately the same elements I generally do, I believe Kevin saw them in a new, distinctive way. I'm thrilled with these images made by our son. Enjoy. Please click on the photos to enlarge them.

Wings. Lovers. Contrail.

October 10: Sometimes real life is like a picture-postcard, in the best possible sense. Click to see larger.

October 14: Asymmetrical sunset.

Between the lines

Fronds

Soft September evenings

Number 9

What a date yesterday! 09-09-09

It means nothing, but is fun to see all written out like that.


The sky last night, however, reacted more somberly.

Labor Day

I'm awfully glad I happened to glance out the window just now. Cool night, gorgeous after-sunset glow. End of a beautiful weekend.

Remains of the daylight

The slanting, tawny light of late summer draws me to the beach after supper. Make that me and 2,000 hungry mosquitos. But who's counting.

Can air be wistful?

Peek-a-boo, Lady Moon.

Clouds on “fire”

A gorgeous evening. Lots of people strolling the beach, fishing, boating, as the sun set golden behind mounds of cumulonimbus clouds.

Nightfall, June 27

Sun vs. clouds

The sun came out. The people came to the beach. Yay!

Everyone was watching the National Guard Air Show at Quonset Point from the sea wall.

The Canadian Snow Birds precision jet team did amazing loops over the bay. A seagull tried to outdo them.

Thunderclouds threatened from the north and west, but they held off long enough for the air show to conclude.





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Unsettled

Stormy with a chance of sunset.



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Sky lines

Can you see the orange jet contrail parallel to the electrical wire in the cloudy evening sky?

Sometimes I like to chop the sky into these abstract chunks with my camera. These photos aren't flashy, like sunsets, but there is an artiness to them, like a color-field painting.

"Duality" by Leon Berkowitz

A jet takes off from Green Airport nearby.

After the cloudburst

Criss-cross

Sometimes I curse the telephone and other utility wires and cables that obstruct parts of our view. Tonight I didn't mind. The black lines and silhouettes seemed to frame this sunset and make it more vivid.

Western lights

Last night's sunset progressed from soaring beams of diffused light to a brilliant fan of color and shadow across the sky.

Spring light and shadows

While it is still chilly here on the Bay, the hopeful slanting light of a spring evening brings out sailboats on the water and walkers on the bike bath.


This couple out for a stroll happen to be friends, Maureen and Jerry, from a block away. They had just waved and "hello-ed" before resuming their walk.

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Fire!

Fiery sunset, that is, behind Buttonwoods.