Looks like the usual 22-degree circular halo.
Tag: Imported Post
Coronawhere?
A lot of the maps I see showing coronavirus cases, even from sources like the CDC, have a problem: They’re labeled by country, or by state. It’s too big to be useful.
- Labeling the number of cases reported in the US doesn’t tell you that they’re mostly in clusters in Washington and California.
- Labeling the number of cases in California doesn’t tell you that they’re mostly in northern California.
What matters for tracking its spread is actual location and transportation links, not jurisdiction.
Note: Cleaned up a bit from my original post on Mastodon.
Update 2024: It’s weird to look back at this now that the virus is literally everywhere (except maybe still Antarctica and the International Space Station?) and will be with us forever. That there was a time when it was still on the horizon but hadn’t arrived here (for whatever your value of “here” might have been) yet.
Bluebird Valentine
I spotted a western bluebird on Valentine’s Day morning.
Seems appropriate.
(Spotted in a tree at a city park. As I was trying to aim my camera, it flew down and landed on top of a birdhouse nearby, making it easier to see.)
Update: This was the last photo I posted to Instagram before I stopped using the site altogether. Even at the time I cross-posted it to Pixelfed and Flickr.
Glass Sundog
A bright sundog next to a glass-sided building. The sun is off to the left out of frame. The sundog had a bit more color and more of the spectrum in it as seen through my polarized sunglasses, so I kind of wish I’d taken a shot through one of the lenses, but at least you can see how bright it was.
I haven’t adjusted the color on this image at all -– except for cropping, it’s straight out of my phone.
Halo and a Dark Cloud
A 22° sun halo.