Our house sits about 750 feet above sea level overlooking the Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, Long Beach and the cities beyond. Sometimes, while skies are clear at our level, clouds and marine conditions lay a thick white blanket over the area below us. We awoke to just such conditions last Saturday morning. I'm sharing a sequence of photos beginning with the sunrise as my Wednesday Vignette.
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| My cat Pipig was crying for her breakfast so I didn't get out the back door before the sun had mostly surfaced above the cloud cover |
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| I took this photo with the sun hidden behind the Agonis flexuosa's trunk in an effort to block some of the glare. The cloud blanket always brings snow to mind for me. |
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| The clouds often have interesting shapes when viewed from up top. That brownish pink color is created by smog - we haven't had sufficient rain to scrub the horizon clean. The red color in the foreground are the bracts of a Bougainvillea planted on the upper slope just beyond our Xylosma hedge. |
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| This photo was taken just a few paces north of the prior one as the sun continued to rise. Here the folds of the clouds looked almost like ocean waves. |
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| My garden is more fully revealed here but the cloud cover is still intact |
Once the sun had risen, the cloud cover below us slowly began to dissipate. It was gone before noon.
I wrote this post yesterday morning, a bright day, filled with sunshine. I'm shocked by yesterday's election results, which I'm not yet able to process. I'll make no attempt to mine these images for meaning. The clouds in my photos are just clouds - they clear out and we can see what's in front of us clearly again.
Visit Anna at Flutter & Hum for other Wednesday Vignettes.
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