February Friday Sunset
A painted sunset on a mid-February Friday evening looking due west. Spectacular colors courtesy of high clouds over the Pacific Ocean (about 10 miles away).
A painted sunset on a mid-February Friday evening looking due west. Spectacular colors courtesy of high clouds over the Pacific Ocean (about 10 miles away).
Looking west-southwest just before 5PM Pacific, the suns sets for the last time in 2020 on December 31. The other side of those hills is the Pacific Ocean.
All summer the garden is thick with big, fat orb weaver spiders. By mid-autumn, they're all but gone. Here's one of the few left weaving a web backlit by the sun setting over the Pacific.
Really cold Alaskan air is parked over us dropping temperatures into the 20's overnight again. But the cold skies make for some really spectacular sunsets. Here is last night's sunset from the upper garden looking west out over the greenhouse.
Saturday, the day before yesterday, the high was 83 degrees. Tonight it's going to bottom out in the 20's. Welcome to February in San Diego. These huge temperature swings wreak havoc on the garden, but, dang... they make for beautiful sunsets.
As I was coming back from closing the chicken coop last night, I saw Rusty the rooster weathervane against a setting sun sky. Looked pretty neat.
A spider weaving a web between two trees high in the air with the sun setting in the background.
Multiple tropical storms out of Baja California have been rolling across the area. Overnight we're only dipping into the 70° range and during the day it's in the mid-90's. Oh and 93% humidity. It's basically like living in a bathtub. The one upside is some absolutely spectacular sunsets. This one is looking over the San Luis Rey river valley toward the Pacific.
Sunset after a storm passes through San Diego County. Mother Nature makes the best photofilters. No app required.
Fire is terrible, but it sure makes for a pretty sunset. This is a photo of the Las Pulgas fire taken around 7:45 PM last night.