Sickle of Doom.

It was the first day back to work of the year. In addition to the angle blowing on his trumpet, there was this interesting distortion of a contrail. An auspicious start to a new work year.

Hovering over My Work

Angel or Headless Hymenoptera.

EZ thing

Here's a fun little time series. These things are so fleeting.

It was a little group of clouds, away from all the rest. I walked outside, looked up, and it said "E2C". A while later it looked like "EZ2" or "EZC". By 15:48 it was not EZ2C at all!

Escondido, CA 1/5/2006

AH!

It was a perfect sky for contrails today. About every half hour, a plane comes into Palomar Airport (about 12 miles west of here), and the trails just stacked up.

Later on, they came unraveled in a very interesting, turbulent way:





When I zoomed in on the boxed area, I saw some sign of relief. It says, "AH".





I thought about posting the mirror image, so it would say "HA", but we're both opposed to tampering with the images. Then it becomes too easy.

- Escondido CA, 1/5/2006

Funny. I was just looking at this again, and now I see the date "1954" at the middle of the right edge. - SCV: May 1, 2009

xmas sunset oddity

I was in Phoenix for Xmas. We went for a walk around sunset, and there was a prominent sun dog. Looked like a double sun for a while, a binary star. Cool. When I looked at these photos, I saw something odd ... sleigh tracks running through the sun!

Bigger version viewable here.

Chandler, AZ, 12/25/2005

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In case you couldn't tell, we're having fun here. This is not a serious scientific discussion.

Unicorn makes a stand

After a long hike, I looked up for some cloud wabbits and found a unicorn instead. It started coming apart by the time I got the camera out. A moment after I shot the picture, it was a wolf barking at a huge goldfish. Moments later, it was just a bunch of water vapor. Such fleeting things.

Daley Ranch, Escondido CA, 1/1/2006

holey Wabbit & orca

Here's a hoppity wabbit-shaped hole in the clouds (upper right). Just below that is a croissant riding an orca. Clouds can trigger the weirdest of images ...

1/4/2005