For three days, we have lived within the fog that has pulled the summer’s heat out of the lake and breathed it out around us. Here’s what that looks like:
The World as a Computer Sees It Source

Mixing sun and cloud? Isn’t that what trees do?

Here’s what it looks like in the real world. This photograph was made at noon:

Housing Development on BX Creek

Sandwiched between the engine rebuilders and a walled retirement village.

It is good to see someone at home, keeping an eye out. Security is so important these days:

Family Housing Cooperative

Keeping the generations mixed in the same neighbourhood. Excellent urban planning.

I’ve been thinking all afternoon: trees drink water from the soil, mix it with carbon dioxide from the air, charge it with sunlight, and build their beautiful bodies out of the mix. They don’t make themselves out of the soil. It might look like it to us, creatures of the land, but to them the soil is just a place to stand. That birds, creatures of the air, nest in these shapes of light and air that freeze flight into line and balance, is just, you know, right.

Last Glimpse of Crow in its World of Hoarfrost

Sometimes colour would be too much.