Smoke Filled Skies
F or the past couple of weeks, it has been very rainy and very humid. On the occasional day of some partial sun, the sun has been mostly obscured by California wildfire smoke. When I awoke this morning at 6am, I looked out the window to see this... The sun was barely illuminating our neighborhood through an eerie yellowish, hazy smoke. More often than not, we are shrouded in dense fog in the mornings but the fog on any other normal day is a neutral gray color. We now have an eerie yellowish haze almost constantly this summer. It is mostly noticeable in the early mornings and early evenings when the sun is low but the haze is also quite visible on the rare midday sunny day because it noticeably cuts down on visibility. I can't put my finger on it but this smoke just appears different than typical haze. The moon was shrouded in this yellowish, hazy smoke last night too. I didn't get a photo of it though. I was feeling rather lousy last night so I had no desire to grab