Autumn Sundog

"Only what slips through one's fingers, only what is never expressed in words, has no thoughts, exists completely.

 That is the price of proximity: you don't see it.

 Don't know that it's there. Then it's over, then you see it."

~Karl Ove Knausgard

 Autumn 

I spotted this scene from the car, as we drove through Emeryville, on our way to the Bay Bridge last Saturday.The sky all afternoon had a strange green tint to it, with just enough golden color to produce a sun-dog. I love looking for cool things in the sky, so when I saw it I had to smile and continually snap the camera, in hopes I could manage a half decent photo or two. I got really lucky to get both the sun-dog and the plants in focus! Damn I'm good!

 #58 Leaf Of The Day

November 19th 2019

Berkeley, California

Nikon

 ~Mood: Happy 

~Me  :)

Art About Town: Berkeley... "Expanse" By Artist Carolyn Haydu

 

Addison Streetscape Project

Addison Street, Berkeley, California

February 12th, 2014 

"In the sky there are answers and explanations for everything: 

every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion."

~Ishmael Neah, 

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Soldier

From the awesome and inspiring Addison Street Art Walk comes "Expanse" By Carolyn Haydu. With this piece, the artist reminds us of the great contrast of the sky verses the concrete beneath our feet. I know when I begin to feel the stifling feeling of living in a big city, I usually look up and study the sky and look for shapes in the clouds. I love this piece, and drive by it from time to time, just to remind myself that I absolutely can find the art, because it's all around me, even in the sky!

Mood: Happy

~Me :)

Karen's New Monday Photo Shoot #4: Look! Up In The Sky!

"Everything is created from moment to moment, always new. Like fireworks, this universe is a celebration and you are the spectator contemplating the eternal Fourth of July of your absolute splendor."

-Francis Lucille

New Monday Photo Shoot #4: Show us something in the sky. It can be clouds or birds or planes or planets or flying pigs - anything at all, really, just as long as it's visually interesting.

-Karen Funk Blocher, of the blog, Outpost Mavarin

The weatherman says it's going to snow tonight, possibly at the lower levels around the bay. I live in the East Bay hills, so if you can imagine, it's mighty cold right now. :) I am hoping to be able to maybe get a few photos of snow falling down, but if I do, it will be early tomorrow morning. We'll see. But for the time being, how about some photos to make you feel warm? How about a series of fireworks photos from last May?

Actually, the large photo was taken on Twin Peaks, in 2006, but all of the small photos are from last year's Kaboom concert. Oh my, it was a warm, no I take it back, it was a HOT night, and I was sitting at the first vista point, after you cross the Golden Gate Bridge waiting for the fireworks to begin. I can almost feel that sensual warm breeze as it moved across the bay, and gave me that little chill that made my skin feel oh so good! It's a wonder I got any photos done at all. Oh my...

The large photo has been posted on Ellipsis before, but all of the smaller ones are new edits. I passed them up the first time, funny how you can see something different in your photos once they have been archived. :) Be sure to check back with this entry later this week, I might have an update. Wish me snow luck! :)

-OndineMonet
"Kaboom"
2006, Twin Peaks, San Francisco, Ca
2007, Vista Point, GGB, Marin County, Ca
Evening

Long, Slow, Passionate Kisses

"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"

-Hal Borland

Last night, I thought it might be nice to try and capture a nice photograph of San Francisco, as seen from up here in the East Bay hills. All the buildings on the Embarcadero are decorated for the holiday season, and it is absolutely gorgeous, however, it wasn't to be. That old San Francisco fog was determined to blot out the view of the city, so I decided instead to focus on one of the last sunsets of November. I aimed my camera toward the sun, and watched as it slowly and passionately kissed the sky goodnight. :) Kisses like that should always be slow... don't you think? :)

Then just a little while later...

-OndineMonet
"The Kiss Goodnight"
Berkeley, California
November 29, 2007
Early Evening