Fog soup
This is the time of year that brings fog to the coast regularly.
The water is cool, and the air tries to heat up, and all hell breaks loose.
It usually burns off midday, but the chill that it brings in the morning just makes your bones rattle.
Trying to find inspiration to lug my camera around during this gray time of year is hard, but each morning I tuck it next to me in the front seat, load Honey and the kids up and do the morning drop off routine.
Today the fog just filled up my senses. Everything seemed magnified at the edge of visibility.
I was photographing some wild ducks, and out of the fog drifted a ghost.
Birds emerged amid the ordinary shapes and angles.
Little, inhabited islands appeared out of the fog.
Right now, as much as warm sand and blazing sun are what I long for, there is a sense of peace and ethereal beauty along the winter coast that settles me.
I grew up on lake Ontario with lots of those foggy mornings although mainly in the spring and fall. I still love to listen to a foghorn It brings back such good memories.
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Yeah, the temperature high today was 14 degrees F…and right now it is -4 degrees F. You don’t mind if I dream of your weather for a few more months right?
Those are some beautiful photos.
I love the last one. Beautiful!
I don’t know why, since I don’t know you at all, but John Denver’s “Annie’s Song” always makes me think of you and Bill. I am sorry if that is creepy weird, but every time I come to your blog and read your thoughts, it’s always running through my head.
So there’s your dose of crazy for the morning, how about that?
Elisa, you want to hear something creepy weird? I was listening to that song when I read your comment……….I swear!!!! My hair is standing up on the back of my neck it is so freaky. I just downloaded a bunch of John Denver to my iPod. AND, I wrote that song out and left it at Bill’s place on the table for him to find when he came home for lunch. I so totally don’t think you are creepy weird, but I am completely freaking out about the coincidence!!!
Oh my word, that IS weird…are you kidding me????? WOW. :-0
On a sidenote, it’s a real email address…I know it looks fake.
Elisa, I am totally serious. It was way weird. Way, way weird.