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Solar Illumination on Frosty Artistry on Steel

Exquisite beauty, albeit temporal

Shortly before 8:00 this morning, Ruby came back in to urge me to go out for a bit and look at some frost designs. I’ve seen them before, but I’m always amazed and awed by them. I took some photos. They don’t need captions. Read it all

Photo: It Made Me Think of Nevada

But maybe it should have been Utah.

oddly familiar natural bridge, seen in Oregon

Yes, it made me think of Nevada: The barren landscape, the carved canyons, the shadows cast by the recently risen sun.

Ruby wondered if I meant Read it all

Oregon: Rainbows Around the Sun

Unexpected, rare-to-me beauty around the sun

I took filter-free photos here at home, about two miles east of Hubbard, Oregon. I hope I didn’t ruin anything in my camera (Canon PowerShot S3) with a couple of the shots. If I knew how to operate my camera better, I’m sure I could have snapped some better pictures. I just had it on full auto. (Does that make it an assault camera?) 😯 (No, I didn’t hit anybody with it.)

Are these rainbows? Or rainrings? Or sunrings? Or full sundogs? Or sun halos? Whatever they are, we couldn’t see all of the outer one. It just wasn’t complete from our angle.

These particular photos I took at 1:28, 1:31, 1:32, and 1:32 this afternoon.

inner ring around the sun Read it all

Sailors, Take Warning!

Especially Christian sailors on life's sea, sailing toward eternity

To whom it may concern: East of Hubbard, we have high hopes to see the sun.

But maybe we will see the Son instead…

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

(Matthew 16:1-4)

(About the title: Red sky at morning)