The leaves have all fallen during the past few days, but a couple weeks ago you could still see the mountains and fog through a rich display of color courtesy of our Japanese Maple.

Posted on December 5th, 2008 under nature. Tags: autumn, fog, mountains, trees. Comments: 1

As I was eating breakfast I watched the fog creep up from the valley, expanding ever higher until it had engulfed our neighbor just below us. I knew we were next so I grabbed my camera and shot the above through the dining room window.

This is what it looks like to be on the upper edge of ground fog. It grabs you from beneath, but the sun still tries to fight its losing battle from above. The winter sun was no match and we were entombed in the stuff moments later.

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 under nature. Tags: fog, trees. Comments: 3

We’ve had lots of foggy mornings lately. I grabbed my camera to take the above picture not so much for the fog as to get the bright oranges and reds on the Japanese Maple tree in the bottom of the picture. Unfortunately, if I focused on the leaves and had them show up in true color in the picture the sky (and everything else) would turn white and you couldn’t see the fog or mountain tops. It was either colorful leaves or sky/mountains/fog. I couldn’t get both in a single picture even though that is what my natural eyes were seeing. Oh well, it’s still a decent photograph anyway.

Posted on December 1st, 2008 under nature. Tags: fog, mountains, sunrise, valley. Comments: 2

I woke up and looked out my window last week to the above view. After snapping this picture I hopped in the shower. When I got out of the shower the fog had risen another few hundred feet and nothing could be seen, but fog, until several hours later.

Posted on November 17th, 2008 under nature. Tags: clouds, fog, mountains, nature, skywatch, sunrise, valley. Comments: 3