Thoughts and musings, illustrated
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I thought you might enjoy this photo of a genuine sundog (parhelion) sighting on the island. It’s unusual because the clouds look more like some hybrid of stratus clouds than like the cirrus clouds that usually produce sundogs. But there must have been ice crystals in these clouds, whatever they were, for the sundogs to form.
Tags: Block Island, Golden Grove, lighthouse, North Light, ocean, parhelion, photograph, Rhode Island, Sachem Pond, sky, sun dog, sundog, view, weather
Mist rises off the water, still cold in May, on a warm spring day.
Tags: Block Island, clouds, Golden Grove, mist, ocean, photograph, Rhode Island, Sachem Pond, sky, view
>whew!<
That was a little like being north of the Arctic Circle: only one sunset, but it’s four weeks long!
Time for a break from sunsets. Here’s Sachem Pond on a clear spring day.
Tags: beach grass, Block Island, clouds, Golden Grove, photograph, Rhode Island, Sachem Pond, sky, view
The object below recently came into my possession. What do you think it might be?
Tags: mysterious object
This post concludes a four-part series comprising eight photographs of the sunset on July 1, 2010. The series shows the sunset as it progressed from 8:08pm until 8:32pm. These two photos are close-ups of the sky (so to speak!) taken at 8:29 and 8:32pm–enough elapsed time for the sun to go down and for those two people to get their vehicle safely off the bar.
Tags: Block Island, clouds, Golden Grove, lighthouse, North Light, ocean, photograph, Rhode Island, sky, sunset, view
