More Winter Skies

12/13/11 7:49am - "<3"

1/4/12 7:59am - "omg"

1/10/12 4:46pm (west view)

1/10/12 4:46pm (east view)

1/5/12 4:59pm - ":-)"

1/10/12 6:16pm

1/11/12 7:55am (wide shot)

1/11/12 7:55am (close-up on Mt. Rainier)

1/12/12 9:30am - "yup..."

1/12/12 04:06pm - "this never gets old"

 Everybody and their mother was paying attention to the following sunset (on 1/13/12). I walked down Pine towards downtown, and people were taking pictures on their phones, or just standing staring at the slivers of sky between the buildings. On facebook, I simply posted "No photo is going to do it justice. Get outside and experience the sky yourself...right NOW." When I got home, I was pleasantly surprised to see how many people posted awesome photos and timelapse slideshows and videos online! And such *good* ones! Maybe one day, I'll have a camera that's better at taking good photos in the crazy light situations of sunrise/sunset. These are some photos my friend Josh sent me:

*text from Josh* 1/13/12 5:24pm - "sexy"...

*text from Josh* 1/13/12 5:52pm - "sexy--the sky"

Texts from Pax: November & December 2011

11/18/11 04:20pm - "decent way to end a friday"

11/28/11 04:16pm - "mmmmmmmm"

11/29/11 07:35am - "clouds to the south, lying up against the mountains"

11/30/11 03:55pm - "very soon"

11/30/11 08:04am

12/02/11 03:47pm

12/02/11 03:48pm

12/02/11 04:13pm

12/07/11 03:47pm

12/07/11 03:52pm - "wow..."

12/07/11 05:30pm

12/09/11 04:34pm

12/09/11 04:34pm

12/12/11 04:20 - ":-)"

12/13/11 07:39am - "<3"

Cloud Catch-Up

9/27/2011 (Tues)

(I wish I'd gotten a better image of the glowing pink spots...if you enlarge ^this^ one, you can see them better, but it's nothing compared to what I was seeing in 3-D.)

09/28/2011 (Wed)

10/04/2011 (Tue)

Zoom in! Sorry for the blur, but the crazy glowiness had to be documented on here...even if it's just a mere shadow of it's full momentary glory...

Yesterday's Sky Porn

As always, you can click on the pics to enlarge them.

Sunrise:

(Sorry about the big metal bars in the following photos...I took the pics on the bus, as we were going across the I-5 bridge in the express lanes.)

Afternoon sky...check out the mountains (just at the visible horizon) that are peaking over a layer of clouds...about center in the first photo, and a little to the left in the second.

Transitions

The last couple of weeks have been chock full of changes. As certain parts of my life shift around, I've been rearranging my room and helping to reconfigure the common spaces in our house. I feel like I'm really settling into my bedroom this time around...things feel good in the places I've put them and I've started a steady process of decorating.

I took out my drawings from the art classes I took in high school/community college...I used to have them covering the walls of my last home, a studio apartment I was inhabiting alone. Some of the drawings surprised me, as I didn't remember them being so 'good'...others looked unfinished somehow, as they did before. But this time, I realized that I could just...finish them. Smear a background in here, redefine the shadows and highlights there...and then they're fit for wall-hanging. Easy as that.

Today was my last day of funemployment before classes start tomorrow. Instead of staying home doing my habitual cleaning/organizing/blogging/cooking thing I've been doing since my job ended, I drove down to retrieve my keyboard. A year and a half ago, I found this keyboard on craigslist for a ridiculously good price, considering its original retail price and the practically perfect condition it was in.

The timing worked out perfectly for me to drive north of Seattle in a borrowed car and purchase it with the savings I had at the time. I thought I was about to embark on the musical career I've always dreamt about. A year and 3 months ago, I was madly i love and rushing a move from my studio into a house already full to capacity with some of my favorite people. I gave most of my kitchen things away to friends who needed them. And I brought this keyboard over to a friends' house, where she would have more space and use for it than I did at the time.

Today, the timing worked out perfectly for me to drive far south of Seattle in a borrowed car to retrieve it from the aforementioned friend. She's given it lots of lovin' and I could tell she was sad to see it carried out of her bedroom. I felt bad for separating her from her newfound love of the keys...

And, at the same time, I was so ready to have it back. I'd already cleared a space in my room. Gotten my yellow leaf paper lamp out. Put my drawings up. I'm embarking on a new life journey tomorrow--culinary school--and I need to secure these old passions from this previous life before I take the next step.

In Love with the Sky: Wednesday, Sept 21, 2011

I'm going to start labeling these sky photo posts "In Love with the Sky"...cuz, well...I am. In love with the sky, I mean. I really can't help it. When I took an Intro to Atmospheric Sciences (aka Meteorology) class two springs ago, I started a habit of looking at the sky any time I was outside or near a window. Originally, it was to study the clouds and learn how to tell what the weather's doing by the forms they take. But my desire to learn soon melded with my love of aesthetics, and thus, a sky/cloud obsession was born.

Today, the sky was full of soft, icy blue clouds...all day. This afternoon, I found myself near my favorite sky-watching spot, Lakeview Blvd. Close enough to walk down and get a bigger picture of what I could only catch glimpses of between the apartment buildings on Capitol Hill. Naturally, I snagged the opportunity for more sky-lovin'.

Oh, and Blogger just announced that photos are now available for viewing in their full size. Which is handy, because in this series, I used the panorama setting on my spiffy camera phone for the first time. So if you want to see any of these in a larger format, just click on the image! :)

This first set was taken on the Lakeview Blvd I-5 overpass. It seemed like I was standing there for ages, jaw gaping in awe, camera clicking away. But according to the time stamps on my photos, I was only actively taking pics for 20 min. Time perception is a fickle thing.

Sept 21, 2011 - 7:00am

"You should come look at the clouds!"

Best way to get up in the morning.